Cloud FinOps Engineer

As a Cloud FinOps Engineer, you empower users to take control of their cloud costs.

How do you make our customers happy?

As part of the Cloud FinOps team, you help the organization get the most value out of its cloud investments. You analyze cloud usage and spending, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate data into insights that help teams make better decisions.

You build and maintain tools, data pipelines, dashboards, and budgeting models that provide clear visibility into cloud usage and financial impact. This enables teams and managers to understand how their architectural and product decisions translate into cloud consumption and business value.

By applying FinOps principles, you work across engineering, product, and finance to improve transparency, accountability, and collaboration. You help teams adopt a value-driven cloud mindset in which cost, performance, and business outcomes are considered together.

Through analyses such as unit economics, forecasting, and trend monitoring, you support teams in making informed trade-offs and ensuring the long-term financial sustainability and scalability of bol.’s cloud environment.

The biggest challenge

With our move to the cloud, product teams have taken on significantly more responsibility for the infrastructure they run. This includes understanding and managing the financial impact of their cloud usage.

One of the key challenges is ensuring that cloud value and financial awareness remain part of everyday engineering decisions, even when teams are focused on delivering product features and reliability.

The Cloud FinOps team helps the organization maintain this focus. The challenge is not just providing visibility into cloud usage and spend but embedding a FinOps mindset across teams—so that engineers, product managers, and leadership continuously make informed trade-offs between cost, performance, and business value.

What are our products?

Our team delivers and maintains solutions built on powerful technologies to manage cloud costs and enable insights. Using BigQuery, we combine exported Cloud Billing data with cross-charging mechanisms and team-based enrichment to create datasets that support dashboards and Python-based alerting systems in Looker Studio. We streamline the budget distribution process by using BigQuery to generate insights and dashboards that help teams monitor and adjust their financial allocations effectively. Additionally, we collaborate with other teams to publish our insights and tooling on bol.’s central developers’ portal, which is built on ‘Backstage’ (MUI, TypeScript).

Our goal is to transform cloud cost management into a shared responsibility and a driver of measurable business value.

What you’ll do as a Cloud FinOps Engineer

As a member of the Cloud FinOps team, you’ll take the lead in optimizing bol.’s cloud operations for efficiency and cost-effectiveness. You’ll:

• Analyze and Optimize: Provide actionable insights into cloud usage and costs, identifying opportunities to improve resource efficiency.
• Enable Teams: Develop dashboards, alerts, and tools to empower product teams to manage their cloud budgets effectively.
• Drive Strategy: Create financial strategies, such as unit economics and cost forecasts, to align cloud spending with business goals.
• Implement Best Practices: Advocate for FinOps practices across teams to foster a culture of cost awareness and accountability.
• Optimize Commitments: Manage and optimize cloud purchasing strategies, such as CUDs, to maximize savings.

Your efforts will ensure our cloud infrastructure is cost-efficient, transparent, and aligned with business goals through the FinOps framework.

Who is on the team?

You’ll be joining a team of five people. You will work closely with three Cloud FinOps engineers, one product manager, and one engineering manager. People on the team have been here at bol. for years and have worked in Platform Engineering and DevOps for quite some time.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

• - You Like Clear Guidance: You thrive on well-defined tasks and appreciate a bit of handholding. Taking risks or figuring things out on your own isn't your preferred style.
• - You’re a Problem-Solver, not an Analyst: Analytical work isn’t your strength. Diving deep into data isn’t something you find easy or enjoyable.
• - You Value Structure and Support: You excel in environments where you can follow a structured process and prefer clear directions to ensure success.

• + You’re a Strategic Thinker: You excel at connecting the dots between technical details and business goals, turning cloud cost insights into impactful strategies.
• + You Enjoy Building Tools: You find it rewarding and exciting to create dashboards, notebooks, alerts, and automation tools to empower teams.
• + You’re Passionate About Cloud Innovation: You love staying at the forefront of cloud technologies and applying your knowledge to drive financial sustainability and innovation.

Perks

Bonus

The bonus is calculated at the end of the year and we always end the year with a fun party!

Flexible working

We bring the best of both worlds together by working 50% at the office and 50% at home. This way, we find a balance between organisational and individual needs.

On and off

At bol we understand like no other that you have to take care of yourself first, then your environment and then bol. In that order. Therefore, everyone at bol receives 29 days of vacation.

This is where you’ll work

At one of the best-known online retail tech platforms in the Netherlands and Belgium, where 13.5 million customers can choose from over ~38 million articles and roughly 50,000 commercial partners run their businesses. You’ll work alongside over 2,800 colleagues.