FinOps Engineer

Your Responsibilities:

• Create innovative FinOps solutions and designs within defined standards, or proposing new standards when required, ensuring that designs work holistically within larger solutions.
• In close collaboration with cross functional architecture teams, develop strategies and roadmaps which support the introduction and continuous improvement of FinOps.
• Work closely with the other Tech Ops teams to identify, test, and implement FinOps monitoring and automation tools across the infrastructure platforms and estate.
• Maintain a good awareness of Operations and Project activities through regular communication with operations & project leads and by attending update meetings.
• Deliver visibility at the beginning (Ideation) of Projects and throughout the lifecycle of projects to inform and provide FinOps cost governance to project leads, architects and engineers.
• Undertake requirements analysis of incoming requests ensuring deliverables are clearly understood and agreed with stakeholders.
• Proactively seek out opportunities for continuous improvement of systems and processes and propose improvement activities.
• Liaise with 3rd. party vendors when appropriate to create new solutions and continuous improvement proposals.
• Collaborate with Architects to propose, review and implement new standards and technologies.
• Carry out continuous personal development, ensuring technical skills are kept up to date and non-technical skills are gained and improved.
• Develop a base cross functional technical knowledge allowing holistic thinking during design processes.
• Carry out technical reviews of change requests and designs created by other teams.
• Work closely with the CoE, gathering, understanding, and implementing wider objectives of the CoE and ensuring they are fully aware of FinOps activities.
• Identify and resize oversized VMs to optimize resource utilization and reduce costs.
• Utilize reserved instances and savings plans to achieve cost savings.
• Implement and track the effectiveness of various cost-saving measures across the cloud environment.
• Establish and enforce governance policies and controls to mitigate future cloud spend and ensure compliance.
• Develop and implement guardrails to prevent unnecessary resource allocation and ensure efficient use of cloud resources.
• Monitor compliance with established policies and take corrective actions as needed.
• Assist the implementation and manage a tagging management solution to automate and correct tags, ensuring accurate cost allocation.
• Assist in the selection and implementation of a cloud financial management tool (e.g., Flexera, Apptio) to enable deep dive analysis and chargeback capabilities.
• Identify opportunities for automation to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Implement Azure policies to prevent duplicate tags and ensure accurate tagging.
• Support the development of a show back model to allocate costs to business units based on usage.
• Establish high-level policies to control resource allocation and costs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Your Profile:

• 5+ years of implementing and developing cloud platforms, including provisioning, engineering and administration activities, in particular Azure.
• Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience in a FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or cloud financial management role.
• Deep understanding of FinOps Principles and practices, supported by FinOps Practitioner/Engineer certification (or equivalent proven experience)
• Knowledge and experience with the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)
• Proven track record of analysing cloud usage patterns to identify cost-saving opportunities, and implementing cost reduction measures without compromising performance and availability.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to build understanding and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience using native cloud cost management tools (specifically Azure Cost Management and Billing)
• Hands on experience of implementing and managing Cloud Financial Management tools such as Apptio, Flexera.
• Familiarity with Microsoft and Azure APIs and working with Engineers to develop integrations with FinOps tooling.
• Strong data analytics and data visualization skills including experience writing SQL queries and developing dashboards in PowerBI
• Experience in building self-service tooling for cloud spend visibility and governance.

• A broad knowledge and understanding of Infrastructure systems and technologies

• Cloud Networking & Security

• Databases
• AD, AAD, Hybrid AAD and AAD DS

• DNS & Azure DNS

• Experience of holistic infrastructure engineering solutions comprising multiple elements including

• On premise private cloud and multiple public cloud environments

• Incorporating cloud and middleware capabilities

• Experience of creating technology roadmaps based on strategy inputs

• Ability to carry out requirements analysis and create detailed FinOps solution designs
• Experience in providing engineering expertise to Operations teams in support of incident and request resolution