Senior Azure FinOps Engineer 100% (f/m/d)

YOUR CHALLENGE

Establish, own, and continuously improve FinOps practices, processes, and governance across the Azure platform

Analyse Azure consumption and spending patterns, identify optimization opportunities, and drive initiatives to reduce cloud costs through usage and rate optimization

Guide cloud engineers and architects in designing, implementing, and operating cost-efficient cloud solutions

Define and support the implementation of cost allocation, showback, and chargeback models across business units and customers

Support stakeholders and customers with cost estimations, budgeting, forecasting and financial impact assessments for new projects and cloud initiatives

Develop dashboards, reporting, alerts, and cost insights for engineering teams, management, finance, procurement, and customers to improve cost transparency and budget control

Periodically review and consolidate Azure Advisor recommendations, reservations, savings plans, licensing options, and optimization opportunities together with Microsoft specialists and internal stakeholders

Proactively promote cost awareness and accountability by challenging resource consumption patterns and helping customers optimize their cloud usage

YOUR PROFILE

Several years of hands-on experience in Azure engineering, Azure platform operations, cloud architecture, cloud financial management, or FinOps

Proven experience managing and optimizing Azure consumption, costs, budgets, reservations, savings plans and licensing models

Strong understanding of Azure services, subscriptions, management groups, resource governance, tagging strategies and cloud-native architectures

Experience establishing cost transparency through reporting, budgeting, forecasting, anomaly detection and cost governance processes by using tools such as Power BI or Azure Monitor

Ability to translate technical cloud consumption data into actionable recommendations and business-relevant insights for management and stakeholders

Experience in enterprise-scale environments; experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries is an advantage

Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a comparable discipline (HF/FH/University)

Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure administration, engineering, governance and cost management

Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, automation, cloud governance frameworks, and container and cloud platforms, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), is beneficial

Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-305) and FinOps Certified Practitioner certification are highly desirable

Excellent communication, consulting and stakeholder management skills combined with a strong analytical mindset, high level of initiative, ability to work independently and a collaborative, customer-focused approach

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