Cloud Cost Engineer & Consultant (m/w/d)

As a Cloud Cost Engineer & Consultant at Cortex Reply, you'll build the platforms, pipelines, and automation that give enterprises real-time control over their technology spend. This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and financial analytics - turning raw billing data into actionable, automated optimisation.

We work with the FinOps Foundation, shape industry standards, and expand the discipline into AI, sustainability, and beyond.

Your Tasks

Cost Visibility & Tooling Engineering

• Design integrations across AWS, Azure, and GCP billing APIs
• Architect data pipelines that normalise and unify multi-cloud, SaaS, and on-prem spend data
• Build dashboards, cost views, and real-time alerting using BI and observability tools

Automation & Policy Enforcement

• Design automated cost controls: policy-as-code guardrails (tagging, sizing, lifecycle), event-driven automation for idle resource cleanup and budget notifications
• Write reusable Terraform modules embedding cost-awareness into provisioning

Infrastructure Optimisation

• Generate rightsizing recommendations and remediate waste across cloud, SaaS, AI, and on-prem workloads
• Optimise Kubernetes workloads, storage tiers, network egress, and managed service configurations

Cost Allocation & Tagging Engineering

• Design and enforce tagging frameworks at scale
• Implement automated compliance checks and remediation workflows
• Build showback/chargeback systems mapping spend to business units, products, and teams

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with DevOps, Platform, and SRE teams to embed FinOps into existing workflows
• Enable engineering self-service through tools, APIs, and integrations that surface cost context
• Collaborate with finance to translate engineering data into business reporting

Thought Leadership

• Develop FinOps blueprints and playbooks
• Contribute trainings, talks, and publications
• Expand offerings into FinOps for AI, FinOps for SaaS, or sustainability tracking

Client Advisory & Consulting

• Act as a technical consultant to client teams - conduct assessments, lead workshops, and translate engineering solutions into business outcomes during client-facing engagements
• Contribute to solution design proposals and project scoping, ensuring technical feasibility aligns with client expectations and timelines

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Professional development through challenging projects and training opportunities
• A diverse, international team with a strong knowledge-sharing culture
• Opportunities for thought leadership: conferences, publications, certifications
• A collaborative, supportive team environment