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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