Cloud Cost Engineer
Gorilla Logic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇴 Colombia
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudEC2GoKubernetesNode.jsPythonSQLTerraform
About the role
- Own and optimize the cost efficiency of mainly our AWS infrastructure
- Build and maintain AWS cost dashboards (FinOut or CloudZero) with service-level and team-level breakdowns.
- Implement and enforce cost allocation tagging policies across accounts and namespaces.
- Develop real-time spend monitoring and anomaly detection
- Identify and drive compute, storage, and network optimizations
- Partner with Capacity Engineering to enhance cluster auto-scaling, node pooling, and container rightsizing strategies.
- Automate optimization tasks via Terraform or Cloud Custodian.
- Champion FinOps culture across engineering teams — shared responsibility for cloud efficiency.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering with strong AWS expertise.
- Knowledge of EKS (Kubernetes) and its resource management internals.
- Proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Skilled with AWS Cost Explorer, Athena, CloudWatch, and Billing/Usage Reports (CUR) or a third party tool like CloudZero or FinOut.
- Hands-on experience optimizing: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, EKS, and CloudFront costs.
- Savings Plans / Reserved Instances management.
- Spot Fleet / EC2 Auto Scaling / Graviton migrations.
- Programming experience (Python, Go, or Bash) for automation and data analysis.
- Strong data analysis skills — SQL, Athena, or cost data exports.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
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Hard skills
AWSTerraformCloudFormationPythonGoBashSQLEKSEC2Cost Optimization
Soft skills
data analysiscollaborationleadershipcommunicationproblem-solving