10/27/2026 updated
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Senior FinOps Analyst | AWS Cloud Cost Optimization
Chennai, India
Only remote
B.E., Electrical and Electronics EngineeringAbout me
Senior FinOps Analyst helping businesses optimize AWS costs. Managed $25M annual spend across 350+ accounts and delivered $4M in savings. Based in Chennai, available for remote freelance projects. Let’s connect to reduce your AWS bill!
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FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization
Expertise in cloud cost optimization strategies including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Rightsizing, Spot Instances, Storage Optimization, Network Optimization, Cost Allocation, Tagging Strategy, Budgeting, Forecasting, EDP Management, MAP Credits, Invoice Reconciliation, Anomaly Detection, and Cost Audits. Delivered $4M in AWS savings while managing $25M in annual cloud spend across 350+ accounts.
AWS Services & Multi-Account Governance
Deep knowledge of AWS services including Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Report (CUR), AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer, Organizations, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, and Athena. Management of cost, usage, and optimization across 350+ AWS accounts.
Data & Business Intelligence
Proficiency in Qlik Sense, Amazon QuickSight, SQL, Python, and Grafana for building enterprise dashboards, automated reporting, and data-driven cost analysis. Built an enterprise Qlik Sense dashboard for AWS cloud cost, security, tagging, and backup reporting.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS Lambda, Python scripting, and Bitbucket for automating cloud infrastructure and cost optimization reporting, reducing manual effort from 1 week to 30 minutes.
FinOps Tools
Practical use of CloudHealth for cloud financial management and cost visibility across multi-account environments.
Tagging Strategy & Compliance
Definition and execution of AWS tagging strategies that raised tagging compliance from 12% to 93%, enabling accurate cost allocation and governance.
Budgeting & Forecasting
Construction of monthly and annual AWS budgets for 350+ accounts, tracking variance against actuals using Cost Explorer, CUR, and AWS Budgets, and forecasting $25M annual AWS spend using historical data and usage trends.
Collaboration & Project Management Tools
Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, and Confluence for team collaboration, issue tracking, and documentation in enterprise environments.
DevOps & Infrastructure Management
Management of infrastructure configuration changes using Terraform, handling deployments through Bitbucket, supporting 100+ production deployments, and managing EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC services monitored with CloudWatch.
Expertise in cloud cost optimization strategies including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Rightsizing, Spot Instances, Storage Optimization, Network Optimization, Cost Allocation, Tagging Strategy, Budgeting, Forecasting, EDP Management, MAP Credits, Invoice Reconciliation, Anomaly Detection, and Cost Audits. Delivered $4M in AWS savings while managing $25M in annual cloud spend across 350+ accounts.
AWS Services & Multi-Account Governance
Deep knowledge of AWS services including Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Report (CUR), AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer, Organizations, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, and Athena. Management of cost, usage, and optimization across 350+ AWS accounts.
Data & Business Intelligence
Proficiency in Qlik Sense, Amazon QuickSight, SQL, Python, and Grafana for building enterprise dashboards, automated reporting, and data-driven cost analysis. Built an enterprise Qlik Sense dashboard for AWS cloud cost, security, tagging, and backup reporting.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS Lambda, Python scripting, and Bitbucket for automating cloud infrastructure and cost optimization reporting, reducing manual effort from 1 week to 30 minutes.
FinOps Tools
Practical use of CloudHealth for cloud financial management and cost visibility across multi-account environments.
Tagging Strategy & Compliance
Definition and execution of AWS tagging strategies that raised tagging compliance from 12% to 93%, enabling accurate cost allocation and governance.
Budgeting & Forecasting
Construction of monthly and annual AWS budgets for 350+ accounts, tracking variance against actuals using Cost Explorer, CUR, and AWS Budgets, and forecasting $25M annual AWS spend using historical data and usage trends.
Collaboration & Project Management Tools
Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, and Confluence for team collaboration, issue tracking, and documentation in enterprise environments.
DevOps & Infrastructure Management
Management of infrastructure configuration changes using Terraform, handling deployments through Bitbucket, supporting 100+ production deployments, and managing EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC services monitored with CloudWatch.
Experience
Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2023
Languages
EnglishFluent
Project history
Delivered $4M in AWS savings in 2026 while managing $25M in annual cloud spend across 350+ accounts. Built monthly and annual AWS budgets, forecasted annual spend, configured AWS Budgets alerts and Cost Anomaly Detection, tracked EDP and MAP credits, managed Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, rightsized EC2 and RDS resources, reduced storage and network costs, conducted cost audits, drove tagging compliance from 12% to 93%, automated optimization reports, and built enterprise Qlik Sense dashboards for AWS cloud cost, security, tagging, and backup.
Monitored AWS cost and usage across 250+ accounts, identified and reduced unnecessary cloud spend, supported cloud cost optimization by flagging idle and underutilized resources, managed AWS support activities for 250+ accounts, monitored application health using Grafana, and built a centralized Grafana monitoring dashboard with alerting through Microsoft Teams and email.
Managed infrastructure configuration changes using Terraform and handled deployments through Bitbucket. Supported 100+ production deployments, managed EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC services with CloudWatch monitoring, handled AWS cloud cost for managed environments, and drove cloud cost optimization by rightsizing EC2, removing unused resources, and using Terraform to standardize infrastructure.