DevOps/CloudGeneralHigh signalEmergingAround since 2019
FinOps
Also written as Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Financial Management
The practice of managing cloud spend as an engineering concern — attributing costs to teams and making the people who create spend able to see it.
Think of it like
Giving each department its own metered electricity bill rather than one invoice nobody can explain.
Junior or senior?
Increasingly valuable and still uncommon.
Senior sounds like
Can name a specific saving and what it cost them in effort or performance to get it.
Ask them
“What's the largest cloud saving you found, and what did it take to actually realise it?”