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Which roles ask for FinOps at tech companies · 16 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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16 roles counted that list FinOps, one per company, title and level; 24 postings in the window.

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In short

FinOps: listed in 16 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 6 and preferred in 10. The largest group is platform engineer roles: 5 of 16. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.

Required
6 of 16
Of the roles that list FinOps
Preferred
10 of 16
Of the roles that list FinOps
Largest group
5 of 16
Platform engineer

Roles that ask for FinOps

Roles listing FinOps, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Platform engineer55 of 57
Site reliability engineer33 of 70
Software engineer22 of 719
AI engineer11 of 70
Analytics engineer11 of 28
Data engineer11 of 99
DevOps engineer11 of 58
Forward deployed engineer11 of 63
Machine learning engineer11 of 79

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 16 FinOps roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Python
12 of 16
CI/CD
11 of 16
AWS
10 of 16
Kubernetes
10 of 16
Terraform
10 of 16
Go
7 of 16
Identity and Access Management
7 of 16
Infrastructure as Code
7 of 16
Amazon EKS
6 of 16
GitHub Actions
5 of 16
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Cost Optimization
3 of 16
Open Source
3 of 16
Argo CD
2 of 16
Chaos Engineering
2 of 16
DevSecOps
2 of 16
Infrastructure as Code
2 of 16
Multi-Cloud
2 of 16
SOC 2
2 of 16
Terraform
2 of 16
AI
1 of 16

Experience

Of the 10 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
10 of 10
2+ years
10 of 10
3+ years
10 of 10
5+ years
10 of 10
8+ years
4 of 10
10+ years
0 of 10

Degree

Of the 12 roles we could read for it

Required
3 of 12
Required, or experience instead
2 of 12
Preferred
0 of 12
Not mentioned
7 of 12

Pay and remote work

Of the 16 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
9 of 16
Remote roles
13 of 16

How we count: 16 roles from 13 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology