Cloud Engineer, SRE

Overview

Sr FinOps Cloud Engineer

Focus: Execution, Migration, and Infrastructure Governance

 

You are the technical engine of the FinOps team. You don't just "move workloads"; you analyze the target environment for efficiency, communicate migration risks to app owners, and use a critical eye to hunt down architectural waste. You are the bridge between the Architect's high-level strategy and the actual cloud console.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Migration Execution & Risk Analysis: Perform hands-on migrations from Azure/AWS to IBM Cloud Bare Metal. Critically evaluate source workloads to ensure the destination instance is right-sized—not just a 1:1 "lift and shift" of waste.
• Waste Elimination & Automation: Own the "Cleanup" backlog. Use analytical thinking to identify patterns in orphaned resources and write scripts to automate their removal across the enterprise.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary technical point of contact for app owners during migrations. You must clearly communicate the "why" behind cost-saving changes and coordinate maintenance windows with precision.
• Daily Spend Forensics: Monitor AI and Cloud spend daily. Beyond just "alerting," you must perform a root-cause analysis (RCA) on spend anomalies to determine if they are legitimate growth or technical leakage.
• Commitment & Tagging Governance: Execute RI/Savings Plan purchases and enforce strict tagging compliance. You are responsible for ensuring 100% of cloud resources are analytically traceable to a business unit.

Professional & Analytical Requirements

• Communication Mastery: Ability to translate technical migration steps into clear, non-technical status updates for project managers and business stakeholders.
• Critical Thinking: A "skeptical" mindset toward cloud defaults. You should instinctively question why a database needs 2TB of premium storage if only 10% is utilized

Required Experience & Technical Skills

Requirement

Cloud Platforms

4–6 years of hands-on admin in Azure & AWS (Associate/Professional level); hands-on with IBM Cloud / Classic Bare Metal.

 

Networking

VMware NSX, PfSense, and Fortinet. You must understand the data-flow logic to avoid breaking apps during a move.

 

Migration Tools

Expert use of VMware HCX, Carbonite, or Azure/AWS native migration services.

 

AI & Strategic Tools

Ability to use AI/LLMs to refactor simple scripts, analyze complex log files for waste, and generate technical documentation.

 

Compliance & Backup

Knowledge of backup/recovery (Veeam, Zerto, or native) to ensure "Eliminate" tasks never impact data durability.

 

About ApteanAt Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled,  purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving  specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000  highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations. 

“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are  central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.