Cloud FinOps Engineer (AWS) - Remote

Overview

Build your future with Sovos.

If you're seeking a career where innovation meets impact, you've come to the right place. As a global leader, Sovos is transforming tax compliance from a business requirement to a force for growth while revolutionizing how businesses navigate the ever-changing regulatory landscape.

At Sovos, we're dedicated to more than just solving compliance challenges we're committed to making a positive and lasting difference in everything we do. Our teams operate on the modern edge of digital technology, working not only to solve complex business challenges but also to enrich our personal, professional, and local communities.

Our purpose-built systems provide the tools you need to thrive in a world where governments demand increased visibility, faster reporting and greater control over business processes. Excited about the possibilities? So are we!

Don’t worry if you don’t check all the boxes apply anyway! We're focused on hiring the right people, not just the "right" resume. It’s not about what you’ve done elsewhere; it’s all about what you’re capable of doing here.

The Work You\'ll Do

As part of Sovos CloudOps / engineering organization, you will be responsible for optimizing the performance and scalability of Sovos Saas offering. You will have many opportunities to bring tremendous impact to our products and customer experience while constantly learning new technology.

More specifically you will :

• Monitor real-time AWS spending across multiple accounts and services using tools like Cost Explorer, CloudWatch, and third-party platforms
• Identify cost anomalies, usage spikes, and billing discrepancies
• Create detailed cost attribution models to track spending by team, project, or business unit
• Rightsize EC2 instances based on utilization metrics and performance requirements
• Optimize storage costs by analyzing access patterns and recommending appropriate storage classes (S3 IA, Glacier, etc.)
• Implement automated shutdown schedules for non-production environments
• Eliminate orphaned resources like unattached EBS volumes, unused elastic IPs, and idle load balancers
• Develop and manage cloud budgets with automated alerting systems
• Create accurate cost forecasts based on usage trends and business growth projections
• Establish tagging strategies for cost allocation and chargeback models
• Negotiate and manage Reserved Instances and Savings Plans portfolios
• Educate development teams on cost-efficient architecture patterns and best practices
• Review new service deployments for cost implications before implementation
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate cost considerations into CI / CD pipelines

Key Responsibilities

What We Need from You

BS in Computer Science with 7 years OR more of experiencein similar activities

High AWS knowledge

Passion for identifying and solving monitoring, performance and scalability challenges

Industry experience with SaaS architecture, preferably in the areas of Monitoring, scalability, capacity and performance optimization

Background in high-performance computing, service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to represent and measure service quality and distributed systems

Large scale, distributed software design & development experience in a Unix / Linux environment

Well versed in Performance metrics & algorithms as well as strong analytical and debugging skills

What Does Sovos Offer You?

The tools to enhance your life - because we want you to enjoy your life outside of work and inside!

Sovos is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment that celebrates diversity and where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate against race, color, religions, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic provided by law. At Sovos, all employees are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work.

Company Background

Sovos is a global provider of tax, compliance and trust solutions and services that enable businesses to navigate an increasingly regulated world with true confidence. Purpose-built for always-on compliance capabilities, our scalable IT-driven solutions meet the demands of an evolving and complex global regulatory landscape. Sovos\' cloud-based software platform provides an unparalleled level of integration with business applications and government compliance processes.

More than 100,000 customers in 100+ countries including half the Fortune 500 trust Sovos for their compliance needs. Sovos annually processes more than three billion transactions across 19,000 global tax jurisdictions. Bolstered by a robust partner program more than 400 strong, Sovos brings to bear an unrivaled global network for companies across industries and geographies. Founded in 1979, Sovos has operations across the Americas and Europe, and is owned by Hg and TA Associates. For more information visit http : / / www.sovos.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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