Core Engineering, FinOps Engineering, Cloud Platform Developer, Analyst/ Associate, Singapore

Who We Are

Core Engineering provides global thought leadership, solution development, delivery and support for a broad suite of technology products and services at Goldman Sachs. It leverages global expertise to develop leading-edge technology solutions that meet business demands and differentiate the firm's technology offerings in the marketplace. Core Engineering enables the operation of the firm by managing an extensive compute platform and global communication networks, while addressing technology, compliance and reputational risk and resilience. 

The Cloud Platform team within Core Engineering is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles, and you will be directly contributing to platform that programmatically enforces safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster and scale effectively.

Responsibilities And Qualifications

As part of our global Cloud Platform team, you will work on various capabilities as a FinOps Engineer. Your role includes specification, development, testing and releasing of cost control and automation features. You are expected to contribute to the vision, understand our customers’ needs, business goals, product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within the team. We expect the successful candidate to deliver high quality software and to be passionate about efficient software engineering. You must have a proficient understanding of software development, public cloud billing mechanisms, security and an understanding of how highly available cloud native services operate. 

This role will be focusing on our FinOps environment, to develop and support automation capabilities across all our public cloud cost management software stack.

How will you fulfill your potential?

• Design, develop and manage services in public cloud.
• Collaborate with finance and engineering teams to establish and enforce cloud cost management policies and best practices.
• Monitor and analyze cloud usage and spending to identify cost-saving opportunities and ensure efficient resource utilization.
• Develop and implement FinOps tactics to optimize cloud costs and improve financial accountability.
• Write technical specifications, work with several teams and manage technical dependencies and drive design meetings with various stakeholders for consensus
• Partner with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP and Azure to shape the future of public cloud services for finance industry

Basic Qualifications

• Strong technical ability, willingness to learn and evolve your skills with advances in technology
• Minimum 1 year (for Analyst)/ 3 years (for Associate) programming expertise in Python, Java, Go or JavaScript
• Expertise with Linux, containers, system security and automation with scripting languages
• Strong oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor or Advanced Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Knowledge and experience of software development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code tooling, such as CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK or Kubernetes
• Knowledge of cloud service provider billing models and concepts including pricing models, billing and cost management
• Experience with data analysis and visualization tooling to drive effective communication
• Familiarity with software artifact and container image lifecycle management and governance
• Understanding of RESTful API design best practices and experience in developing them