GCP FinOps Engineer
Job DetailsJob Title: GCP FinOps EngineerLocation- Newport, UKKey Responsibilities(Individual contributor role)
- Optimise large scale data analytics workloads through partitioning, clustering, query rewrites, storage format improvements, and lifecycle policies.
- Tune containerised microservices by recalibrating CPU/memory requests, improving autoscaling efficiency, and restructuring workload placement on cost efficient compute.
- Redesign workflow orchestration pipelines for parallel execution, increased concurrency, and offloading heavy tasks to lower cost execution environments.
- Analyse distributed data processing pipelines to right size worker types, adjust scaling thresholds, and adopt low cost compute for batch workloads.
- Reduce log processing and storage overhead through log level standardisation, routing rules, exclusion filters, and retention optimisation.
- Implement storage tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs.
- Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right sizing.
- Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read/write hotspots.
- Build dashboards, budgets, alerts, and guardrails to drive ongoing cost governance and financial accountability.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to embed cost efficient architecture patterns and operational best practices. Key Skills / Knowledge
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud
- Strong understanding of GCP Data services (indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, clustering)
- Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning
- Hands-on experience with Dataflow job pipelines and worker optimisation
- Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator)
- Strong Dataflow processing pipelines development & schedulers knowledge
- Deep understanding of Cloud Logging routing, sinks, exclusion filters
- Experience with Cloud Spanner autoscaling, indexing, schema optimisation
- Cloud SQL performance tuning and indexing
- Ability to analyse billing data & resource consumption
- Experience using GCP Cost Explorer, Recommender API, Billing Export
- Ability to quantify cost savings and present ROI to leadership
- Build dashboards, alerts, and budget guardrails
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, data, and product teams
- Structured problem-solving mindset
- Ownership-driven, proactive and independent
- Min 5+ years experience in Google Cloud
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