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FinOps Engineer

Job

  • Level
    Experienced
  • Job Field
    IT, Software, DevOps
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Location
    Neckarsulm
  • Working Model
    Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you will develop FinOps concepts, implement automated tools for cost optimization, analyze cloud cost structures, set technical standards, and make the profitability of our IT investments measurable.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • You actively participate in the development and implementation of our FinOps concepts and ensure that theoretical savings potentials are directly translated into scalable, technical architectures and automated tooling landscapes.
    • You will work with us to develop a strategy for scaling automated FinOps tools capable of analyzing and resolving cost structures and architectural inefficiencies across thousands of resources at scale.
    • You bring your in-depth understanding of cloud cost structures to directly influence our architecture decisions and Infrastructure-as-Code templates by integrating complex pricing models.
    • You work together with the engineering team to build automated guardrails, ensure compliance with FinOps standards, and identify hidden sources of "Waste" in our infrastructures through technical deep dives and automated audits.
    • You design viable concepts for measuring Unit Economics for our Cloud and AI services to make the business value of our IT investments structured and precisely measurable.
    • You implement technical measures for cost optimization directly at the systems and bring a lot of initiative in developing intelligent solutions and technical guardrails.

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    Our expectations of you

    Education

    • You have a successfully completed degree (Computer Science, Business Informatics, or similar) and practical experience, and you feel completely confident working with Cloud-Native technologies.

    Qualifications

    • You are characterized by a strongly developed hands-on mentality that enables you to not only design FinOps concepts theoretically but also implement them technically and securely on the systems.
    • You communicate confidently on both technical and management levels, can persuade in German and English, and manage to translate complex FinOps requirements into understandable IT governance policies.
    • You demonstrate a strong passion and continuous curiosity for the development of our entire technology landscape and are equally interested in innovative cloud services, modern pricing models, as well as recent breakthroughs in AI.
    • You effortlessly manage to link technological detail decisions in architecture with strategic corporate goals and to articulate the added value of FinOps at all organizational levels.
    • You are a solution-oriented and pragmatic problem solver who finds simple, cost-effective, and above all scalable solutions even for highly complex architectural challenges.
    • You primarily understand FinOps as a fundamental cultural shift and act as a peer partner who empowers our teams through intelligent guardrails to see cost responsibility as a natural part of their development daily routine.

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    Benefits

    Work-Life-Integration

    Health, Fitness & Fun

    Topics You Will Work On

    Job Locations

    • Location Neckarsulm

      74172 Baden-Württemberg

      Germany

    About Your Employer

    Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG

    Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG

    The Schwarz Group, based in Neckarsulm, is a significant German conglomerate and one of the largest retail groups in Europe. It operates over 13,900 stores under the brands Lidl and Kaufland and employs around 575,000 people.

    Description

  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Trade
  • Location
    Neckarsulm
    Working Model
    Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders

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