Lead - Platform Engineering

1 Month ago • 3-5 Years

Software Development & Engineering

Job Description

This Lead Platform Engineering role focuses on cloud cost management, including forecasting, budgeting, and optimization. Responsibilities involve developing data automation scripts using SQL and Python, maintaining spend visibility reports, engaging with stakeholders, and documenting processes. The role requires identifying and implementing cost-saving opportunities and ensuring data accuracy for audits.

Must Have:

Produce monthly forecasts and track variances
Support annual/quarterly planning with scenarios
Write SQL and Python jobs for cost and usage data
Automate reports, alerts, and reconciliation checks
Maintain daily/weekly/monthly spend reports and dashboards
Explain spend drivers to engineers and finance
Run regular reviews with Engineering, FP&A, and Procurement
Document decisions, owners, and due dates
Document processes for reporting, forecasting, and commitments
Identify right-sizing, scheduling, storage tiering, and other cost optimization opportunities
Recommend and track Savings Plans/Reserved Instances

Perks:

Highly competitive compensation and benefits package
Excitement, challenges, and rewards of a fast-growing, entrepreneurial company

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Description

Job Responsibilities:

Forecasting & Budgeting
Produce monthly forecasts; track and explain variances vs. Budget
Support annual/quarterly planning with scenarios and run-rate analysis
Tie costs to unit metrics (e.g., cost per user, per API call)
Data & Automation
Write SQL and Python jobs to ingest, transform, and validate cost and usage data
Automate reports, alerts, and reconciliation checks; reduce manual work
Integrate actions with ticketing (e.g., create remediation tasks in Jira)
Spend Visibility & Reporting
Maintain daily/weekly/monthly spend reports and dashboards
Keep a single source of truth for cost, usage, and tags (e.g., AWS CUR/Athena, invoices, APIs)
Explain spend drivers in plain language for engineers and finance
Stakeholder Engagement
Run regular reviews with Engineering, FP&A, and Procurement
Document decisions, owners, and due dates; follow up until closure
Provide simple how-to guides for teams on budgets, tags, and cost hygiene
Process & Controls
Document processes for reporting, forecasting, and commitments
Ensure data accuracy and auditability; support internal/external audits as needed
Propose small, frequent improvements to reduce toil and defects
Optimization & Commitments
Identify right-sizing, scheduling, storage tiering, and other cost optimization opportunities
Recommend and track Savings Plans/Reserved Instances; monitor coverage and utilization
Quantify savings, impact, and any operational risk

Required Skills:

3–5 years in cloud cost management, FP&A, or related operations role
Strong SQL; ability to build and tune queries and models
Experience with one programming language for automation (Python preferred)
Hands-on with AWS cost tooling (CUR/Athena, Cost Explorer, Budgets) or similar in Azure/GCP
AWS development experience
Familiarity with a BI tool (e.g. Power BI)
Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
Clear writing and communication; able to explain trade-offs without jargon

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