The Impact you bring to Cognite You will partner closely with Finance, Engineering, Product teams to ensure that our cloud investments are cost-effective, scalable, and aligned with business priorities. We want someone to wake up thinking about cloud strategy. If you are passionate about cloud technologies, data-driven decision-making, and reducing multi-million dollar cloud spend this role is for you.

Cloud Cost Optimization & Operations

• Own the end-to-end cloud cost management strategy across cloud providers at Cognite
• Analyze spend trends, identify cost-saving opportunities, and lead execution of optimization initiatives
• Maintain an optimization backlog and ensure progress through engineering partnerships
• Drive adoption of rightsizing, lifecycle management, autoscaling, and elimination of unused resources
• Build cost-visibility dashboards and KPIs to track performance and progress

Reporting & Insights

• Own all cloud cost and consumption reporting, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and actionable insights
• Produce weekly, monthly, and quarterly cloud spend reports for Finance, Engineering, and Executive Leadership
• Create dashboards that visualize spend, usage trends, forecasting accuracy, and optimization performance
• Monitor anomalies and usage spikes and proactively communicate risks and drive recommended actions
• Develop standardized reporting templates and metrics for consistent executive-level updates

Strategy & Business Partnerships

• Build business cases for cloud investments, optimization efforts, and architectural trade-offs. Including Providing insights and recommendations to senior leadership on cloud spend, trends, and cost risks
• Collaborate with Procurement and Finance to support contract negotiations, commitment planning, and long-term cloud strategy
• Drive end-to-end execution of cloud partner funding programs in close partnership with our Revenue Partnerships team

Tooling & Automation

• Evaluate and implement cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, Cloudability)
• Partner with Data/Analytics teams to integrate cost data into BI platforms for deeper insights
• Promote automation opportunities that improve efficiency and reduce manual reporting and operational tasks

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud operations, cloud engineering, FinOps, FP&A (tech focus), or Cloud program management
• Prior experience reducing cloud spend at scale (multi-million annual budgets)

Preferred Experience

• Certifications are helpful but not required:

• FinOps Certified Practitioner

• AWS Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect – Associate

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Competitive compensation
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Competitive health, dental, vision & disability coverages for employees and all dependents
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid Parental Leave Program
• Employee Referral Program
• Join a team of 60+ different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
• Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners
• Paid mobile phone and WiFi

Equal Opportunity Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.