Job Description
Job Details
Job Title: GCP FinOps Engineer
Location- Newport, UK
Key Responsibilities
(Individual contributor role)
* Optimise large scale data analytics workloads through partitioning, clustering, query rewrites, storage format improvements, and lifecycle policies.
* Tune containerised microservices by recalibrating CPU/memory requests, improving autoscaling efficiency, and restructuring workload placement on cost efficient compute.
* Redesign workflow orchestration pipelines for parallel execution, increased concurrency, and offloading heavy tasks to lower cost execution environments.
* Analyse distributed data processing pipelines to right size worker types, adjust scaling thresholds, and adopt low cost compute for batch workloads.
* Reduce log processing and storage overhead through log level standardisation, routing rules, exclusion filters, and retention optimisation.
* Implement storage tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs.
* Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right sizing.
* Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read/write hotspots.
* Build dashboards, budgets, alerts, and guardrails to drive ongoing cost governance and financial accountability.
* Collaborate with engineering teams to embed cost efficient architecture patterns and operational best practices.
Key Skills / Knowledge
* 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Google Cloud
* Strong understanding of GCP Data services (indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, clustering)
* Expert‑level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning
* Hands‑on experience with Dataflow job pipelines and worker optimisation
* Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator)
* Strong Dataflow processing pipelines development & schedulers knowledge
* Deep understanding of Cloud Logging routing, sinks, exclusion filters
* Experience with Cloud Spanner autoscaling, indexing, schema optimisation
* Cloud SQL performance tuning and indexing
* Ability to analyse billing data & resource consumption
* Experience using GCP Cost Explorer, Recommender API, Billing Export
* Ability to quantify cost savings and present ROI to leadership
* Build dashboards, alerts, and budget guardrails
* Strong communication and stakeholder management
* Ability to collaborate across engineering, data, and product teams
* Structured problem‑solving mindset
* Ownership‑driven, proactive and independent
Experience Required
* Min 5+ years experience in Google Cloud
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