FinOps Cloud Engineer

WHO ARE WE?

WE ARE A WORLD LEADER IN ENGINEERING AND IT SERVICES.

At ALTEN, we see our specialists as architects – today’s designers of tomorrow’s world.

As a leader in Engineering and IT Services, we support a company in their technological and sustainable transformation.

OVER 57,400 EMPLOYEES IN 30+ COUNTRIES, TO SUPPORT MORE THAN 6,500 CLIENTS WORLDWIDE.

We operate in all sectors: Aeronautics, Space, Defence, Security & Naval, Automotive, Rail & Mobility, Energy & Environment, Life Sciences & Health, Industrial Equipment & Electronics, Telecoms, Banking, Finance & Insurance, Retail, Services & Medias, Public Services & Government.

We carry out complex and highly technical projects throughout the value chain of the most prestigious companies worldwide.

Our motto: Building Tomorrow’s World Today!

Role description

• Identify opportunities in ingestion, retention, tiering, sampling, routing, and exclusion rules—prioritise by ROI and risk.

• Implement changes via automation/IaC with rollback plans and validation.

• Build enterprise-scale automation for logging/storage optimisation.

• Analyse cloud-native logging data to uncover cost drivers.

• Produce optimisation proposals with savings forecasts.

• Improve tagging/allocation models for chargeback/showback accuracy.

• Define policies/guardrails (e.g., retention standards, budget alerts).

• Run optimisation clinics with platform/app teams.

• Deliver executive-ready reports (trends, forecasts, risks).

• Present technical findings to senior stakeholders.

• Create runbooks, controls, and documentation.

• Monitor for cost regression and automate drift detection.

Requirements

• Azure (Log Analytics, Storage Accounts, Cost Management), AWS (CloudWatch, S3, Cost Explorer), GCP (Cloud Logging, BigQuery).

• Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps).

• FinOps principles: Cost allocation, showback/chargeback, governance.

• Hands-on experience with 2+ public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP).

• Strong logging/observability architecture knowledge.

• Python/Bash/Terraform for automation at scale.

• Savings forecasting and business case development.

• Enterprise compliance/risk frameworks experience.

Desirable:

• AWS/GCP/Azure certifications.

• FinOps Foundation certifications.

• Financial sector experience.

We offer:

• We offer a full-time employment contract

• Location - Kraków, work model - hybrid

• Stable and long-term cooperation

• Well-defined career path at the European leader in engineering & IT consulting

• Opportunity to relocate and work in different ALTEN Polska branches

• After project completion, opportunity to engage in subsequent projects within the company

• Introduction and cooperation with a dedicated Competences Manager

Benefits:

• Medicover medical care

• Medicover dental care

• Medicover Benefits platform

• Medicover Sport card

• Referral Program

• Layette for a newborn employee’s child

• Group life insurance

• Pension scheme

We also offer cooperation based on a B2B or Contract of mandate (UZ).

We also guarantee:

• Access to professional certifications with our technology partners (e.g., Google, ISTQB)

• Access to relevant industry events

• Access to the Knowledge Sharing Program

• Access to the Referral Program

Do not hesitate and join our team!

NOTICE: We kindly inform you that we will contact the selected people.