FinOps Engineer

Port.io is hiring a FinOps Engineer to improve visibility and accountability for cloud spend across its R&D organization. The role is focused on identifying cost issues, validating them with data, and working with the right teams to ensure they are resolved.

You will work closely with engineering, DevOps, R&D leadership, and Finance to explain cost trends, support forecasting, and help leadership make informed decisions. The position combines technical analysis, cross-functional follow-up, and recurring reporting.

Success in this role means fewer cost surprises, faster resolution of known issues, stronger detection of meaningful optimization opportunities, and reporting that leadership can trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor cloud and infrastructure spend across AWS and other relevant vendors to identify inefficiencies, anomalies, and emerging cost risks.
• Investigate cost drivers with engineering and DevOps teams to understand why services cost what they do.
• Translate technical cost details into clear business impact, including the drivers, financial effect, and value of potential fixes.
• Triage cost issues to the appropriate owning team and provide enough context for quick action.
• Track open issues through resolution, following up until the impact is reflected in the numbers.
• Own the FinOps reporting process, including cadence, methodology, cost trends, savings, and open risks.
• Work with vendor and cloud account teams such as AWS and DoiT to support reviews and negotiations.
• Help establish tagging, budgeting, and cost-allocation practices that improve future visibility and control.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience as a FinOps Engineer.
• Strong technical understanding of cloud billing models, including compute, storage, data transfer, and managed services.
• Ability to interpret cost breakdowns and ask informed questions.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including budgeting, trend analysis, ROI framing, and narrative building from data.
• Experience with cost management or observability tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, DoiT, or similar platforms.
• Experience owning a recurring leadership-facing deliverable end to end, such as reporting or forecasting.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills.
• Fluency in Hebrew and English.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working directly with AWS or other cloud vendor account teams on cost reviews.
• Background in vendor management or technical program management.
• Experience as a DevOps engineer working with AWS.

Cloud Providers

• AWS
• Other relevant cloud vendors

FinOps Platforms

• AWS Cost Explorer
• DoiT
• Other similar cost management or observability tools

Cloud Cost Topics

• Compute
• Storage
• Data transfer
• Managed services
• Tagging
• Budgeting
• Cost allocation

FinOps Responsibilities

• Monitor cloud spend to identify inefficiencies, anomalies, and cost trends.
• Investigate and explain cost drivers in partnership with engineering and DevOps.
• Translate technical spend data into business terms for leadership and finance.
• Maintain leadership-facing reporting on cost trends, savings realized, open risks, and future direction.
• Support vendor and cloud account reviews and negotiations.
• Help implement tagging, budgeting, and cost-allocation practices.

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to take ownership of FinOps visibility and accountability across a growing R&D organization. It combines hands-on analysis with direct collaboration across engineering, DevOps, Finance, and leadership. The work is closely tied to improving cost control, surfacing meaningful optimization opportunities, and shaping reporting that supports decision-making. It may be a strong fit for someone who enjoy