Senior Business Analyst - Financial Operations (FinOps)

Senior Software Engineer - FinOps (Cloud Infrastructure + Cloud Cost Optimization + AWS Cost explorer/Harness CCM/Apptio Cloudability)

About Gartner IT:

Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients.  We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner.  Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team.  

About the role:

The Cloud Centre of Excellence is responsible for developing Gartner’s capabilities in automating and streamlining IT infrastructure processes and DevOps tasks while improving Gartner’s self service capabilities using public cloud platforms and open-source technologies. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (FinOps) primarily focuses on cloud cost optimization and governance across multi cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and GCP) while maintaining high performance and reliability. This role involves technical, architectural, and financial expertise to drive engineering efficiency and maximize ROI. In this role, you’ll partner with technology, operations, and finance teams to build automation, reporting and self-service capabilities that drive cost transparency, accountability, and performance in our multi-cloud environments.

What you will do:

• Analyse cost and usage across different cloud platforms, implement FinOps practices for cost allocation, optimization, and governance.

• Identify, report and fix inefficient architectural patterns to optimize compute, storage (lifecycle, snapshots), and networking (data transfer) costs etc.

• Leverage cloud cost management platforms and develop automation to streamline financial operations, cost efficient patterns, guardrails and ROI tracking.

• Work with technology FinOps partners to implement processes to monitor cloud spend in real-time, identifying anomalies, inefficiencies, and opportunities for cost control.

• Implement rightsizing, auto-scaling, and tagging strategies.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to build roadmaps for efficiency and educate developers on cost-impactful decisions.

• Ensure that optimizations do not compromise system performance, scalability, or availability.

• Develop robust self-service capabilities, empowering users to access and implement optimization recommendations seamlessly.

• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules (Terraform, CloudFormation) with cost-optimization best practices baked in.

• Create dashboards and reports that provide visibility into cloud costs and ROI metrics. Present actionable insights to leadership and stakeholders.

• Support Technology teams with ad-hoc analysis needs.

• Act as the FinOps liaison to Engineering and Operations teams-translate financial goals into actionable engineering tasks.

• Ensure compliance with financial policies and standards.

What you will need:

Must have

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field required.

• 4-6 years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years focused on cloud infrastructure and cloud cost optimization/FinOps.

• Proven experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, and GCP) and their cost categories.

• Hands-on expertise in cloud cost management tools like AWS Cost explorer/Harness CCM/Apptio Cloudability or any other similar tools.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, and containerization (Kubernetes).

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python or related languages.

​Good to have

• Strong knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud billing models.

• AWS/Azure/GCP certification.

• FinOps Certified Practitioner or Professional.

• Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI or similar tools).

Who you are:

• Excellent communicator with stakeholder management skills.

• Experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis.

• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and data integrity.

• Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team.

What we offer:

In addition to an outstanding work environment with rapid advancement potential, Gartner associates enjoy exceptional compensation and benefits, including:

• An upbeat, positive culture. Integrity, objectivity, collaboration, results and a no-limits mindset are central to our values

• Limitless growth. We work with you to help you meet your goals and advance within the company

• Encouragement to be innovative and challenge status quo

• Exposure to industry leading training and development

• Performance based recognition and rewards

Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles.

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Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

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Experience Level

Senior Level