Cloud Engineer III
At World Fuel, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive. Job Title: AWS FinOps Engineer III Location: Costa Rica (Remote)Job Description At World Fuel Services, our employees are key to our global success. We are industry leaders because of the talent, collaboration, and commitment of our approximately 5,000-strong global team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally diverse environment where innovative thinking, operational excellence, and efficient execution are highly valued. We are seeking a FinOps Engineer II to support the ongoing optimisation, governance, and financial management of our cloud platforms, with a primary focus on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of cloud engineering, automation, financial accountability, and stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will work closely with Cloud Engineering, Application Teams, Architecture, Finance, Procurement, and Business stakeholders to improve cloud cost transparency, drive optimisation opportunities, support forecasting, and embed FinOps practices into day-to-day engineering processes. This is a hands-on technical role requiring strong AWS knowledge, automation skills, analytical capability, and the ability to translate cloud usage and cost data into meaningful recommendations and business outcomes. Key Responsibilities AWS Cost Optimisation Identify and implement AWS cost optimisation opportunities across compute, storage, networking, databases, containers, and serverless services. Drive rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, storage lifecycle, and data transfer optimisation initiatives. Analyse cloud consumption patterns and cost drivers to identify savings opportunities. Partner with engineering teams to implement and track realised savings. Develop repeatable optimisation frameworks, standards, and best practices. FinOps Engineering & Automation Build automation, tooling, dashboards, and self-service capabilities that improve FinOps effectiveness. Automate optimisation identification, tagging compliance, utilisation analysis, and anomaly investigation. Leverage Python, Infrastructure as Code, AWS services, APIs, and AI-assisted tooling such as GitHub Copilot. Improve FinOps reporting, data quality, and operational scalability. Support AWS-native cost management tools and platforms such as Apptio Cloudability. Architecture & Advisory Review AWS workloads and recommend improvements b...