Cloud Efficiency Architect
At a glance
Mid-level Cloud role at PointFive. Remote, United States · full-time · $180,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Advise enterprise customers on cloud and AI cost efficiency, including custom applications and agentic workflows built on PointFive
- Manage NAM accounts by reviewing infrastructure with customer engineering and architecture teams, then driving large-scale remediation
- Design the professional services offer, lead its first engagements, and create the software, automation, and team to expand delivery
- Support enterprise sales, carry deal context into customer work, and grow renewals and expansions across accounts
- Turn customer feedback and industry shifts into product input, while writing and speaking about cloud and AI efficiency
What you bring
- At least seven years in enterprise cloud cost and efficiency work, through FinOps or cloud engineering and architecture
- An engineering, cloud architecture, or DevOps background, with hands-on ability to build applications, automations, and agentic workflows
- Strong grasp of cost models, billing data, and architecture-led optimization across AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, and Databricks
- Experience delivering advisory or professional services work while managing several customer engagements at once
Who this fits
This role suits a hands-on cloud efficiency specialist who can advise enterprise customers and build the services practice as well as its technical work. You’ll own customer relationships and contribute directly to sales, product direction, and public thought leadership. The role is remote and focused mainly on North American accounts. The stated base salary range is $180,000 to $200,000 per year.
From the employer
About PointFive
PointFive finds the cost buried inside enterprise infrastructure, from the cloud to coding agents. We pioneered DeepWaste across cloud and data platforms, and we are now doing the same for AI token spend with TokenShift.
Fanatics, H&M, Hertz, Nubank, Citizens Bank and other Fortune 500 companies use PointFive to see and cut what their infrastructure and AI actually cost.
We have raised $96 million, most recently a $60 million Series B led by Accel. Engineering sits in Tel Aviv and our go-to-market team is focused on North America. PointFive Labs, our research arm, publishes original work on how infrastructure and AI actually get paid for.
CRN named us one of the 10 hottest cloud computing startups of 2026, Forbes Israel put us on its Next Billion Dollar Startups list, and Redpoint selected us for its InfraRed 100, its ranking of the private companies shaping the future of cloud infrastructure.
About the Role
As a Cloud Efficiency Architect, you'll work directly with PointFive's largest enterprise customers on strategic cost and efficiency engagements, owning the strategic relationship for a portfolio of accounts based mainly in NAM. You'll also build our professional services offering from the ground up, defining what we sell, how it's packaged, and how it's delivered. You'll run the first engagements yourself before scaling them with software, automation, and a team. Beyond the customer work, you'll help shape our product roadmap and represent PointFive as a trusted voice in the Cloud & AI Efficiency industry, including in AI and token spend management, where the playbooks are still being written.
What You'll Do
Advise enterprise customers as a trusted advisor on their cloud and AI efficiency journeys, helping them operationalize cost optimization best practices and defining requirements for custom applications and agentic workflows built on the PointFive platform.
Own a portfolio of NAM accounts end to end, working directly with customer engineering and cloud architecture teams to review infrastructure and drive optimization and remediation at scale.
Build our professional services offering from the ground up, shaping what we sell and how it's packaged and delivered, running the initial engagements yourself, then evolving the offering and building the software, automation, and team needed to scale it.
Define best practices for AI and token spend management, positioning PointFive as the leading authority in a new and fast-evolving field.
Accelerate enterprise deals alongside sales, partnering with Account Executives and Solutions Engineers, representing our professional services in the sales cycle, and owning the handoff into the customer relationship so deal context and expectations carry forward.
Drive renewals and expansion across the customer base, advocating for our expanding solution landscape beyond the FinOps space.
Translate the field back into product, turning customer feedback and emerging industry trends into feature requests and roadmap influence with Product and Engineering.
Build your profile as a thought leader in cloud and AI efficiency, writing, speaking, and attending the industry events that establish both you and PointFive as leaders, and take a leading role in building our post-sales capabilities and brand recognition in NAM.
What We're Looking For
Must-have
7+ years of enterprise experience focused on cloud cost and efficiency, either in a technical FinOps role or in cloud engineering/architecture
Background in engineering, cloud architecture, or DevOps, with the hands-on ability to build and ship custom applications, automations, and agentic workflows, not just direct others to build them.
Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, and Databricks cost models, billing/usage data, and architecture-driven optimization.
Working knowledge of AI/LLM cost management and token spend optimization, an emerging discipline with few established playbooks.
Experience identifying and remediating cloud inefficiencies beyond the obvious.
Experience delivering professional services or advisory engagements, managing several customer engagements simultaneously.
Strong presentation, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Engineering teams.
Ability to operate in a startup environment: adaptable, self-directed, and resourceful.
Nice to have
FinOps Certified Practitioner or Professional, and/or AWS, Azure, or GCP Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
Active involvement in the FinOps Foundation community and a strong network in the FinOps/cloud ecosystem.
Experience with public speaking at industry conferences.
Compensation & Benefits
Base Salary Range: $180,000 - $200,000 USD annually.
Health, dental, vision (yes, all three!), equity in something early-stage and exciting, generous PTO, 401K, meal & commuter benefits, a team that will actually challenge you and much more
Why PointFive
Founders with a track record. Built and sold IntSights to Rapid7. Backed by top-tier investors with deep conviction in this category.
Category-defining product. DeepWaste detection and agentic remediation with clear, measurable ROI for both engineering and finance teams.
Early-stage leverage. Your work directly shapes the product, the culture, and the go-to-market playbook.
A practice to call your own. You'll build PointFive's professional services offering from zero and become one of the defining voices on AI and cloud efficiency in NAM, in a field where the playbooks don't exist yet.
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