GCP FinOps Engineer

Job Description 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 / Knowledge5+ years of hands-on experience in Google CloudStrong understanding of GCP Data services (indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, clustering)Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuningHands-on experience with Dataflow job pipelines and worker optimisationStrong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator)Strong Dataflow processing pipelines development & schedulers knowledgeDeep understanding of Cloud Logging routing, sinks, exclusion filtersExperience with Cloud Spanner autoscaling, indexing, schema optimisationCloud SQL performance tuning and indexingAbility to analyse billing data & resource consumptionExperience using GCP Cost Explorer, Recommender API, Billing ExportAbility to quantify cost savings and present ROI to leadershipBuild dashboards, alerts, and budget guardrailsStrong communication and stakeholder managementAbility to collaborate across engineering, data, and product teamsStructured problem-solving mindsetOwnership-driven, proactive and independentExperience RequiredMin 5+ years experience in Google CloudJBRP1_UKTJ

Created: 2026-03-07