Senior Engineer, Infrastructure

At The Hartford, our Enterprise Cloud Services team supports the organizations’ multi-cloud transformation by providing a robust and optimized self-service cloud experience that enables The Hartford to focus on delivering business value to our customers. 

The FinOps Center of Enablement sits within our Enterprise Cloud Services team. As a member of the FinOps Center of Enablement team, you will have the opportunity to partner with cross-functional teams from across the organization to help drive a FinOps culture and empowering stakeholders by demonstrating knowledge of the FinOps Framework and cloud service provider cost management best practices. 

The position is part of a growing function and an opportunity for individuals to combine their passion of engineering with financial accountability, ensuring The Hartford is maximizing the value of every dollar spent in the cloud. Our organization values collaboration and continuous improvement while striving to provide an environment where all ideas are welcomed and valued. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Actively engage with cross-functional teams to promote a FinOps culture of accountability and provide guidance for FinOps capability development and maturity. 

• Clearly present and communicate optimization recommendations to distributed teams and influence strategy and execution of cloud usage. 

• Develop, modify, and maintain cloud costs and utilization reports, dashboards, and alerts that deliver actionable insights into our cloud infrastructure costs and utilization patterns. 

• Analyze opportunities for commitment discounts (AWS Savings Plans, AWS Reserved Instances, GCP CUDs, etc.), measure and track utilization. 

• Analysis of cost anomalies for severity, cost impact and establish potential root cause. 

• Participate in optimization discussions with solution architects and reliability engineers. 

• Analyze large data sets and create financial cost models. 

• Support annual and monthly budget and forecast processes. 

• Assist with capacity planning of workloads moving to the cloud. 

• Support policy and governance processes to maximize business value and adoption of best practices across the organization. 

• Provide stakeholders with recommendations to measure and track KPI/OKR targets. 

• Continuously explore new tools and technologies that can enhance FinOps capabilities. 

• Develop documentation, processes, and standardization of FinOps processes. 

• Participate in internal events to facilitate FinOps knowledge sharing. 

• Be a trusted partner to our stakeholders and cloud user community. 

Required Skills & Experience:  

• Minimum 5 years of experience with AWS or GCP cloud-based platforms and core services. 

• Minimum 3 years of experience supporting FinOps capabilities and functional activities. 

• Strong understanding of AWS or GCP financial management practices including pricing models, optimization strategies, billing, and invoicing. 

• Proficient with cloud management tools (IBM Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Billing Reports). 

• Familiar with rate optimization strategies, commitment-based discounts (AWS Savings Plans, AWS Reserved Instances, GCP CUDs, etc.), and cost metrics for displaying data. 

• Practical knowledge in data engineering to gather, normalize and manage raw data from large datasets into meaningful insights for stakeholders.  

• Strong analytical skills with an aptitude to provide explanation and application of public cloud and cost models, FinOps vocabulary, concepts, processes, and basic financial terminology.  

• Self-motivated individual with the ability to manage deliverables independently and with a high degree of efficiency. 

• Enthusiastic about data analysis, learning modern technologies, and sharing knowledge. 

• Exceptional collaborator who possesses a strong collaborative mindset and attention to detail. 

Nice to Have  

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel 

• Familiar with business intelligence platforms (Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Google Looker) 

• Experience in programming languages (SQL, Python) 

• Experience working with IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation) 

• Snowflake experience a plus 

• Experience working in a mature Agile environment  

• FinOps Certified Practitioner, FinOps Certified Engineer, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, GCP Foundational Certification 

What We Offer 

• Collaborative work environment with global teams. 

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. 

• Continuous learning and growth opportunities in geospatial and risk analytics technologies.