# Azure Senior FinOps Engineer

**Company**: LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
**Location**: St. Loui, Missouri
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an Azure Senior FinOps Engineer to help organisations manage, optimise, and govern their cloud spending effectively.

The successful candidate will combine financial operations (FinOps) expertise with deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Deep understanding of Azure Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures

- 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 analyse costs trends and anomalies

- 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

- Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimise performance and costs

- Keep up to date with industry trends to advise business collaborators and customers on using the latest services to improve cost/performance ratios

**Minimum Requirements:**

- At least 3-5 years working experience with Azure Cloud Services and performing optimisations via rightsizing/modernisation

- 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

- Excellent debugging skills and a proactive attitude when performing deep dive analysis

- Fluent English language verbal and written communication skills are required

**Nice to have:**

- Familiarity with the FinOps Foundation framework

- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

- Knowledge of roles and permissions at cloud level, having experience with RBAC management and least privileged access

- Working experience with a public Cloud Financial Cost Management product

- Understanding of common financial terms, key drivers, and concepts used by Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams

## Skills

### Required
- Azure Cloud Services
- Financial Operations
- REST APIs
- Object-oriented programming
- Python
- bash scripting
- PowerShell scripting
- English

### Nice to have
- FinOps Foundation framework
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- RBAC management
- Cloud Financial Cost Management

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