Job Specifications
Job Title: GCP FinOps Engineer
Location: Onsite – Newport, UK
Duration: 6 Months contract InsideIR35
Key responsibilities:
Optimize large‑scale data analytics workloads through partitioning, clustering, query rewrites, storage format improvements, and lifecycle policies.
Tune containerized microservices by recalibrating CPU/memory requests, improving autoscaling efficiency, and restructuring workload placement on cost‑efficient compute.
Redesign workflow orchestration pipelines for parallel execution, increased concurrency, and offloading heavy tasks to lower‑cost execution environments.
Analyze distributed data‑processing pipelines to right‑size worker types, adjust scaling thresholds, and adopt low‑cost compute for batch workloads.
Reduce log‑processing and storage overhead through log‑level standardization, routing rules, exclusion filters, and retention optimization.
Implement storage‑tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimize cold data retention costs.
Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimization, and instance right‑sizing.
Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read/write hotspots.
Build dashboards, budgets, alerts, and guardrails to drive ongoing cost governance and financial accountability.
Collaborate with engineering teams to embed cost‑efficient architecture patterns and operational best practices.
Key Skills/Knowledge:
5+ years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud
Strong understanding of GCP Data services (indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, clustering)
Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning
Hands-on experience with Dataflow job pipelines and worker optimization
Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator)
Strong Dataflow processing pipelines development & schedulers knowledge
Deep understanding of Cloud Logging routing, sinks, exclusion filters
Experience with Cloud Spanner autoscaling, indexing, schema optimization
Cloud SQL performance tuning and indexing
Ability to analyze billing data & resource consumption
Experience using GCP Cost Explorer, Recommender API, Billing Export
Ability to quantify cost savings and present ROI to leadership
Build dashboards, alerts, and budget guardrails
Strong communication and stakeholder management
Ability to collaborate across engineering, data, and product teams
Structured problem-solving mindset
Ownership-driven, proactive and independent
Experience required:
Min 5+ years' experience in Google Cloud
About the Company
Infoplus Technologies UK Limited is a global IT services company focusing on Enterprise solutions and integration services consulting (SAP/Oracle), MRO Master Data Management, software development, product solutions for education segment, and IT consulting services offering outsourcing solutions to enterprises worldwide. Since inception in 2000, Infoplus has focused on a principle to maximize output for its clients and partners through cost-savings, enhanced productivity and quality.
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