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Senior Solutions Architect - Finops and Cloud Optimization

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated FinOps experience
  • Proven cloud cost optimization experience
  • Strong AWS experience
  • Strong SQL skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives across large enterprise environments
  • Identify waste, inefficiencies, and architectural opportunities for improvement
  • Design governance frameworks that sustain long-term cloud efficiency
  • Partner with engineering teams to implement optimization recommendations

About the company

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Virtasant

Information Technology & Services

Virtasant is a fully-remote and globally distributed technology and business services company that brings the breadth and capability of more than 4,000 technology professionals in 130 countries. We started working in the public cloud in 2007, and over the last 13 years, our team has built or re-platformed over 200 applications, with over 600 million lines of code currently under management.In this time, our team has developed proprietary software and methodologies that help us quickly and accurately identify opportunities to maximize the speed, scale and cost advantages that come with native cloud computing. Virtasant combines industry-leading cloud specialization with a deep bench of global experts across every aspect of the product lifecycle to deliver superior results to our clients. Virtasant offers services including cloud assessments and migrations, custom product development, information management, machine learning, remote team management, application modernization, full-lifecycle technology outsourcing, and more.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryInformation Technology & Services
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Senior Solutions Architect – FinOps & Cloud Optimization

Location: Remote (US Time Zones)
Company: Virtasant

About Virtasant

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries.

We help organizations modernize cloud platforms, improve engineering efficiency, and optimize cloud spend through architecture, automation, and FinOps best practices.

Our teams work directly with enterprise customers to identify inefficiencies, drive modernization efforts, and deliver measurable business outcomes.


The Role

We are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect with deep FinOps and cloud optimization expertise.

This role sits within one of Virtasant's highest-impact customer engagements and requires someone who can confidently work with senior stakeholders, analyze complex cloud environments, and lead initiatives that improve efficiency and reduce spend.

This is not a generic cloud architecture role. The strongest candidates have real experience leading cloud cost optimization programs, understand the technical drivers behind cloud spend, and can connect architecture decisions to financial outcomes.


What You'll Do

FinOps & Cloud Optimization

  • Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives across large enterprise environments

  • Identify waste, inefficiencies, and architectural opportunities for improvement

  • Design governance frameworks that sustain long-term cloud efficiency

  • Analyze cloud usage patterns and spending trends

  • Partner with engineering teams to implement optimization recommendations

Data & Analytics

  • Work with cloud cost and usage data at scale

  • Design and optimize reporting, analytics, and decision-support systems

  • Build insights that drive cost optimization decisions

  • Collaborate with customers on cloud financial visibility initiatives

Client Advisory

  • Work directly with customer stakeholders

  • Lead discovery sessions and optimization reviews

  • Present recommendations to technical and business audiences

  • Build trusted advisor relationships with customers

Technical Leadership

  • Guide engineering and data teams

  • Establish best practices around cloud efficiency

  • Mentor team members

  • Drive architecture decisions that improve both technical and financial outcomes


What We're Looking For

Non-Negotiables

  • Demonstrated FinOps experience

  • Proven cloud cost optimization experience

  • Strong AWS experience

  • Strong SQL skills

  • Strong Python skills

  • Customer-facing consulting experience

  • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly

  • Experience driving measurable cost reduction initiatives

Important: Candidates who have cloud experience but cannot demonstrate meaningful FinOps experience will not be considered.

Technical Experience

FinOps

  • Cloud cost optimization

  • Cost governance

  • Cost allocation

  • Showback and chargeback models

  • Savings Plans and Reserved Instances

  • Rightsizing

  • Cloud economics

AWS & Data

  • AWS-native analytics services

  • Athena

  • Cost and usage reporting

  • Data modeling

  • Medallion architecture concepts

  • Large-scale data analysis

Software & Automation

  • Python

  • SQL

  • Automation

  • Reporting pipelines

  • Data transformation workflows

Platform & Infrastructure (Preferred)

  • Kubernetes

  • Cloud-native platforms

  • Containerized workloads

AI (Nice to Have)

  • Experience using AI tools in engineering or analytics workflows

  • Familiarity with LLMs and AI-assisted development

Consulting & Business Skills

Strong candidates will demonstrate:

  • Executive communication

  • Stakeholder management

  • Problem framing

  • Technical consulting

  • Data-driven decision making

  • Ability to connect technical recommendations to business outcomes


How We Work

The people who succeed in this role are:

  • Analytical and detail-oriented

  • Comfortable working directly with customers

  • Strong communicators

  • Curious problem solvers

  • Hands-on and technically credible

  • Focused on measurable outcomes


Why Virtasant

At Virtasant, you will:

  • Work on high-impact cloud optimization programs

  • Partner with demanding enterprise customers

  • Influence architecture and cost optimization decisions

  • Work alongside experienced architects, engineers, and FinOps practitioners

  • Help customers save millions through better engineering and cloud decisions

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