Hybrid DevOps AWS Cost Optimization Specialist, Mexico City

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About the role

  • AWS Cost Optimization Specialist optimizing cloud costs at Clara, a leading fintech in Latin America. Enhancing financial governance while ensuring efficient AWS resource usage in Mexico City.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute the global AWS cost optimization strategy, continuously identifying savings across EC2, ECS, and Aurora clusters.
  • Implement standardized tagging strategies for precise cost allocation by domain, squad, country, and product.
  • Optimize AWS Kafka clusters, OpenSearch storage strategies, and networking/data transfer costs to ensure lean operations.
  • Define and implement automated shutdown policies for non-production environments and configure advanced anomaly detection and budget alerts.
  • Build executive and operational dashboards using AWS Cost Explorer, Athena, or QuickSight to provide real-time visibility into cloud spend.
  • Partner with engineering teams to design cost-efficient architectures and establish long-term cloud financial governance standards.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of hands-on AWS experience in production environments, with a proven track record in cloud cost optimization initiatives.
  • Strong technical knowledge of EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, EKS, Lambda, and CloudFront.
  • Mastery of AWS Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and multi-account environment management via AWS Organizations.
  • Experience implementing FinOps best practices and strong understanding of cost modeling.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform.
  • Ability to analyze cost data using SQL, Athena, or Python.
  • Working proficiency in English and Spanish.
  • Experience or interest in AI tools to automate workflows and detect spending patterns.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one
  • Multicultural team with daily exposure to Portuguese, Spanish, and English (our corporate language)
  • Annual learning budget and internal accelerated development paths
  • High-ownership environment: we move fast, learn fast, and raise the bar — together
  • Smart, ambitious teammates — low ego, high impact
  • Flexible vacation and hybrid work model focused on results

Job title

DevOps AWS Cost Optimization Specialist, Mexico City

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Degree requirement

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