Senior FinOps Engineer, SRE at Hostelworld
Hostelworld is Hiring
Job Info:
- Company Hostelworld
- Position Senior FinOps Engineer, SRE
- Location Remote, Porto (PT)
- Source LandingJobs
- Published February 12, 2026(45+ days ago)
- Category DevOps
- Type Full-Time
- Experience Senior
Job Description
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
The SRE Senior FinOps Engineer is the domain owner for cloud financial operations. You will shift us from reactive cost reporting to proactive optimisation and forecasting, partnering closely with SRE, DBAs, Product Engineering and Finance to create visibility, governance and a culture of cost accountability across Google Cloud Platform. Your remit includes using GCP billing exports, dashboards and tagging to drive decisions, as well as hands‑on optimisation of compute, storage and databases.
You will sit in the SRE/DBA organisation and partner daily with Senior SREs and DBAs, while working cross‑functionally with Product Engineering and Finance to align spend decisions with reliability, performance and business goals.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Visibility and analysis
- Create a single source of truth for cloud cost and usage using GCP Billing exports, BigQuery and Looker/Tableau; deliver self‑serve dashboards that show spend by project, team and service.
- Design and govern a resource labelling/tagging standard; audit for compliance and drive adoption across environments.
- Implement budgets and alerts on all projects, with clear ownership and escalation paths.
Optimisation and engineering
- Maximise Committed Use Discounts on steady workloads; monitor utilisation and renewals.
- Right‑size GCE VMs, Cloud Run, GKE node pools and Cloud SQL; tune storage lifecycle policies to move cold data to cheaper classes.
- Identify and remove idle or orphaned resources such as unattached disks and unused load balancers.
- Automate savings where sensible, for example scheduling dev/test shutdowns or flagging untagged resources using Cloud Functions or light scripting.
Forecasting and financial partnership
- Build dashboard for rolling 12–18 month forecasts linked to business drivers like traffic, orders, storage and data transfer; maintain and explain variances.
- Translate cloud consumption into business metrics such as cost‑per‑booking and cost‑per‑active‑user; partner with Finance on month‑end, accruals and variance analysis.
Governance, operating rhythm and culture
- Lead a monthly Cloud Cost Review with tech leads and budget owners, agree actions and track outcomes to closure.
- Embed FinOps practices that empower engineers to take cost‑aware action within SLO and reliability constraints.
- Contribute to SRE runbooks, standards and ways of working so cost, performance and availability trade‑offs are explicit and repeatable.