Lead - Platform Engineering
Job Summary
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
10 skills required
Job Details
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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