Azure Senior FinOps Engineer

London Stock Exchange Group•St. Loui, MO

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About The Position

An Azure Senior FinOps Engineer who combines financial operations (FinOps) expertise with deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure to help organizations manage, optimize, and govern their cloud spending effectively. The successful candidate would ideally have a proven background in technical engineering; be able to support the application teams at every stage of the application lifecycle to drive improvements with cost / performance; support Finance & Procurement teams to simplify complex billing data received; and to assist Architecture & Design teams where sharing cloud best practice and industrial experience aids long-term decision making!

Requirements

At least 3-5 years working experience with Azure Cloud Services and performing optimizations via rightsizing/modernization.
Performed evaluation of existing infrastructure and created processes for cost improvement without reducing performance.
Experience working with REST APIs and crafting automation based on REST APIs.
Experience with object-oriented programming in at least one language: Python preferred.
At least 5+ years experience in a large-scale organisation in a similar role.
Experience with bash scripting or PowerShell scripting.
Have excellent debugging skills and a proactive attitude when performing deep dive analysis.
Have a proactive and positive attitude and be open to adapt to the changes and new challenges;
Be able to understand the business requirements and translate them into PoCs/new features that can be presented as demos to our collaborators, partners and customers.
Presentation skills required.
Fluent English language verbal and written communication skills are required.

Nice To Haves

Our candidate is familiar with the FinOps Foundation framework and has an understanding of what reaching maturity means.
Holds a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
Ideally, the candidate will have good knowledge of roles and permissions at cloud level, having experience with RBAC management and least privileged access.
Ideally the candidate should have working experience with a public Cloud Financial Cost Management product and what it means to reach “run” maturity level.
Understand common financial terms, key drivers, and concepts that Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams use day-to-day is important.

Responsibilities

The Azure Senior FinOps Engineer is responsible for working with our business key collaborators, partners and customers to enable an efficient use of Cloud during the application lifecycle.
Deep understanding of Azure Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data driven-insights.
Ensure that the appropriate Azure Services are used in each environment to avoid overspending.
Establish and track KPIs for Azure Cloud Financial Performance.
Collaborate with the platform teams to ensure that the Cost Financial Management tooling is configured accurately across all environments.
Construct dashboards to analyze costs trends and anomalies to be able to perform a root cause analysis.
Automate the configuration and management of Cloud Financial Management tooling via APIs.
Configure pipelines that run daily/nightly/weekly for automatic updates of these configurations and automatic reports generation.
Ensure that the tagging standards are respected and new guidelines are implemented.
Demonstrable eagerness to learn the latest industry trends and can translate how these services or technologies can improve cost / performance for our business stakeholders.
Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimize performance and costs.
Keep up to date with industry trends so that business collaborators and customers can be advised how to use the latest services to improve cost/performance ratios.
Collaborate with other team members to understand and break down sophisticated requests using diagramming tools and team breakout sessions.
Understand the needs of our internal customers: finance team, procurement team, business application team and propose new solutions to their challenges.