Cloud FinOps & DevOps Engineer
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As a Cloud FinOps & DevOps Engineer , you will play a critical role in managing and optimizing one of Solventum's largest areas of investment: cloud infrastructure. You will drive financial discipline across cloud platforms while building tooling, automation, and AI enabled solutions that improve efficiency, reliability, and decision making across engineering and product teams.
You will make an impact by:
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Driving engineered cloud savings , cost transparency, and forecasting accuracy across AWS and emerging multi - cloud environments
Identifying spend anomalies, managing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, and partnering with engineering teams to implement cost-efficient technical changes.
Clearly communicating cloud cost forecasts, anomalies, budgets, and risk drivers to enable timely , informed decision-making across the organization .
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Designing and delivering automation, tooling, dashboards, and platform solutions that support FinOps, DevSecOps , and broader Cloud Technology objectives
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Enabling adoption of AI assisted workflows that improve productivity, analysis, and operational outcomes for yourself and others
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Providing technical guidance, standards, and implementation support to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable cloud solutions, Onboarding Requirement: To improve the onboarding experience, you will have an opportunity to meet with your manager and other new employees as part of the Solventum new employee orientation. As a result, new employees hired for this position will be required to travel to a designated company location for on-site onboarding during their initial days of employment. Travel arrangements and related expenses will be coordinated and paid for by the company in accordance with its travel policy. Applies to new hires with a start date of October 1st 2025 or later., Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.
Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process. Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum and seek to exploit job seekers.
Please note that all email communications from Solventum regarding job opportunities with the company will be from an email with a domain of @solventum.com. Be wary of unsolicited emails or messages regarding Solventum job opportunities from emails with other email domains.
Solventum is an equal opportunity employer. Solventum will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
Requirements
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Bachelor's degree or higher and 3 + years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, FinOps, or platform operations
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Hands - on experience with AWS cloud services, including cost management, compute, storage, and managed services
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Experience designing or supporting automation, scripting, or tooling (e.g., Python, Bash, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines)
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In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required :
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2 years of Cloud cost observability tooling experience (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Trusted Advisor) to investigate spend drivers and support anomaly/root-cause workflows
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Strong executive-level presentation skill with experience presenting to senior leadership and large audiences, and the ability to clearly articulate complex topics, manage ad-hoc questions, and maintain a high level of professionalism.
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Strong understanding of production systems, operational reliability, and risk - aware change management
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Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and finance teams
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1+ year s of experience using AI / generative AI tools to accelerate workflows, including speeding up analysis, automating repetitive tasks, and producing reusable playbooks/templates that improve team productivity
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
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Experience with FinOps practices, engineered savings, or cloud finan c ial governance
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Discount and commitment optimization experience (Reserved Instances / Savings Plans), including monitoring coverage/utilization and supporting commitment strategy decisions
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Experience building and maintaining reporting using BI tools (e.g., AWS QuickSight , Power BI, Tableau)
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Experience working with SQL-based datasets and advanced Excel analysis (e.g., joins, aggregations, pivot tables)
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Experience supporting DevSecOps platforms, CI/CD enablement, observability, or security standards
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Experience working in multi - cloud or cloud - agnostic architectures
Benefits & conditions
Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $106,000 - $145,750, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards