Working in the Cloud Platorm Solutions Team
The Cloud Platform Solutions team serves as the central contact point for internal customers requesting cloud and platform services. We collaborate with multiple specialist teams — Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Application Platform, Data Platform, and Reliability Engineering — to design and deliver high-quality cloud infrastructure.
To strengthen our financial accountability and cost efficiency, we’re introducing Financial Operations (FinOps). This capability ensures that every cloud service we design, deliver, and operate aligns with our business goals, budget expectations, and cost optimization principles.
Role Overview
As a Cloud Finops Engineer, you will be responsible for bringing financial transparency, cost optimization, and budgeting discipline to our cloud environments. You’ll work closely with cloud architects, operations teams, and financial stakeholders to help manage, forecast, and optimize cloud spending across both private and public platforms. Your goal is to enable smarter spending — ensuring teams get the most value out of every euro invested in cloud infrastructure.
Your tasks as our Cloud Finops Engineer
Financial Accountability & Reporting
1. Monitor, analyze, and report on spending across all platforms (private and public cloud).
2. Develop cost dashboards, monthly reports, and spend forecasts for internal teams and management.
3. Identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for cost savings through usage analysis.
Cost Optimization
4. Collaborate with engineers and architects to identify cost-optimization opportunities (e.g., right-sizing, idle resource elimination, committed use discounts).
5. Recommend and implement cost-saving measures while maintaining performance and reliability standards.
6. Support lifecycle management and decommissioning processes to reduce waste.
FinOps Processes & Governance
7. Set up and refine FinOps processes and frameworks for budgeting, cost allocation, and showback/chargeback.
8. Help define and implement cost ownership across teams and services.
9. Support internal policy development to guide responsible consumption.
Collaboration with Technical and Financial Teams
10. Partner with finance to ensure accurate cost forecasting, budgeting, and reporting.
11. Work with engineering and platform teams to translate financial goals into actionable technical strategies.
12. Educate stakeholders on cost models, billing structures, and optimization strategies.
Enablement & Self-Service Integration
13. Contribute to the development of self-service tools and portals that include cost estimation and budgeting features.
14. Ensure customers have visibility into the financial impact of their service requests.
15. Support development of automated reporting and alerting for cost thresholds and budget overruns.
What we have to offer
You will be joining a company that invests fully in you, adapting your work environment optimally to what you need. This will allow you to develop while taking care of your work-life balance. What else will we throw into the fray?
16. You are given every opportunity to further develop your expertise. We stimulate your personal growth with internal mobility opportunities and extensive learning possibilities, but we also give you the chance to press the pause button after a while or to go in a completely different direction.
17. A varied job in which you produce tangible results and make your mark.
18. Next to a fixed monthly salary, we offer a competitive package including meal vouchers, cell phone, company car, hospitalization insurance, telephone subscription, discounts on Telenet products, home working policy, ...).
19. The fine company of colleagues who are as passionate as you.
Your profile as Cloud Finops Engineer
Must have:
20. Strong understanding of billing and cost management (AWS, GCP, or private cloud equivalents).
21. Experience with cost analysis tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Cost Management, CloudHealth, or custom dashboards).
22. Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure components (compute, storage, network, etc.) and their cost drivers.
23. Analytical mindset with experience in Excel, Power BI, or other financial analysis tools.
24. You are able to express yourself clearly to explain financial concepts to technical teams — and vice versa.
Preferred:
25. FinOps Foundation Certified Practitioner (or willingness to secure).
26. Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting in a technology or environment.
27. Familiarity with chargeback/showback models and internal cost allocation.
28. Experience working in a hybrid (public + private) cloud setup.
What success looks like as Cloud Finops Engineer
29. Spend is transparent, predictable, and optimized across the organization.
30. Internal teams understand the financial impact of their technical choices.
31. FinOps practices are integrated into the solution design process and the self-service portal, enabling responsible consumption and cost efficiency.
32. The organization achieves measurable cost savings without compromising on performance or agility.