Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cost Optimization
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StackAdaptMarketing technology
Location: Canada; United StatesFull-TimeStaff
Salary196,000 - 269,500 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWS
Requirements
- Bring a strong background in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering.
- Have experience owning or influencing infrastructure strategy and technical decisions.
- Understand AWS or comparable cloud environments, including infrastructure architecture, resource utilization, and cost drivers.
- Have experience analyzing infrastructure costs and identifying optimization opportunities.
- Understand how infrastructure consumption translates into unit costs, product economics, and business outcomes.
- Have experience working with engineering, product, finance, or business stakeholders.
- Bring exposure to infrastructure budgeting, forecasting, cost modeling, or capacity planning.
- Have strong analytical skills and experience building tools, dashboards, or data models for technical and business decisions.
- Be able to own complex initiatives, influence stakeholders, and communicate across technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Nice to have: familiarity with FinOps, cloud cost management, infrastructure financial planning, showback, chargeback, or cost attribution.
- Nice to have: experience with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, vendor management, procurement, or building an engineering capability or internal platform.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve internal tooling, dashboards, and reporting systems for infrastructure and engineering cost visibility.
- Analyze and optimize cloud infrastructure and engineering-owned vendor spending.
- Develop cost attribution and unit-cost models linking infrastructure consumption to services, products, and business usage.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to assess how architecture, usage patterns, and technical decisions affect costs and product economics.
- Collaborate with finance on infrastructure cost forecasts, financial models, and data inputs for budgeting and long-term planning.
- Provide infrastructure cost insights to inform product pricing and business strategy.
- Establish infrastructure cost KPIs, reporting processes, and governance practices.
- Support vendor management through cost analysis, utilization reviews, contract renewals, and optimization.
- Promote cost-conscious engineering practices while balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and business needs.
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