Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cost Optimization
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JobgetherCloud infrastructure
Based in CanadaFull-TimeStaff
SalaryAnnual base salary ranging from $196,000 to $269,500 CAD for candidates based in Canada. Additional compensation: Depending on eligibility, opportunities for annual bonuses and equity awards.
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWS
Requirements
- Strong professional background in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering.
- Experience influencing infrastructure strategy and technical decisions.
- Deep knowledge of AWS or comparable cloud environments, including architecture, resource utilization, and cloud cost drivers.
- Experience analyzing infrastructure spending, identifying optimization opportunities, and evaluating the financial impact of technical decisions.
- Understanding of infrastructure consumption, unit economics, product economics, and business outcomes.
- Experience collaborating with engineering, product, finance, and business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with infrastructure budgeting, financial forecasting, cost modeling, or capacity planning.
- Experience developing internal tools, dashboards, reporting systems, or data models.
- Ability to lead complex initiatives independently and own projects from conception through implementation.
- FinOps, cloud cost management, infrastructure financial planning, showback, or chargeback knowledge is a plus.
- Experience with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, or comparable infrastructure cost management platforms is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain tools, dashboards, and reporting systems for infrastructure and engineering spending.
- Analyze cloud infrastructure costs and vendor expenses, identifying opportunities to improve utilization, efficiency, and scalability.
- Develop cost attribution frameworks and unit economics models for services, products, and business activities.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to assess how architecture, usage patterns, and technical decisions affect costs and product economics.
- Collaborate with finance to develop cost forecasts, financial models, and inputs for budgeting and capacity planning.
- Provide infrastructure cost insights to support product pricing and business strategy.
- Establish infrastructure cost KPIs, reporting standards, and governance practices.
- Support vendor cost analysis, utilization reviews, contract renewals, and procurement optimization.
- Promote cost-conscious engineering while balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and business priorities.
- Lead initiatives that improve financial visibility and infrastructure investment decisions.
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