Cloud Finops Consultant

La Fosse Associates; South Nutfield; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

La Fosse Associates is seeking a Contract Cloud FinOps Consultant to optimise Azure and AWS environments, identify cost-saving opportunities and implement improvements across cloud infrastructure, platform architecture, FinOps and governance.

The role involves developing a unified multi-cloud platform, standardised engineering practices and governance, while communicating recommendations to stakeholders and tracking savings.

Qualifications

• Experience optimizing Azure and AWS environments with measurable cost benefits.
• Ability to design and implement multi-cloud architecture patterns and governance.
• Proficiency in policy-as-code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Skills in communicating complex cloud findings to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Review Azure and AWS environments to baseline usage and spend.
• Identify eliminates redundant resources and opportunities to rightsize compute, DBs and storage.
• Design target-state multi-cloud architecture with ADRs and high-level designs.
• Develop standardised patterns, tagging, guardrails and IaC modules for governance.
• Create dashboards to track spend, usage and platform health, and manage budgets and alerts.
• Communicate findings to stakeholders and enable the delivery of architecture improvements.

Skills

Azure

AWS

FinOps

Architecture

IaC

Governance

Cost optimisation

Dashboards

Job description

A Global Organisation requires a Contract Cloud Finops Consultant to be responsible for optimising and assessing existing Azure and AWS environments, identifying cost saving opportunities and implementing improvements across cloud infrastructure, platform architecture, FinOps and governance. Develop a unified multi-cloud architecture and standardised engineering practices, while working with technical and business stakeholders to communicate recommendations, track savings and deliver agreed improvements.

• Travel: Remote
• Duration: Initial 6 months

Responsibilities:

• Review Azure and AWS environments across production and non-production, establishing a clear baseline of cloud usage and expenditure. Identify and remove redundant resources, recommend opportunities to rightsize compute, databases and storage, and implement agreed cost-saving measures.
• Assess existing cloud environments against the Well Architected Framework, identifying improvements across reliability, security, performance and operational efficiency. Design a target-state architecture for a unified multi-cloud platform, supported by high-level designs and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Develop standardised architecture patterns and tagging strategies across Azure and AWS, alongside policy-as-code guardrails and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules to improve consistency, automation and governance.
• Develop dashboards to track cloud spend, resource consumption and platform health, implementing budgets and anomaly alerts. Review reserved instance and savings plan options to identify opportunities for further cost optimisation.
• Review cloud commercial agreements, including Microsoft and AWS pricing, partner arrangements and reseller margins. Establish cost allocation models with business stakeholders and develop governance processes to track, manage and report on savings.
• Communicate technical findings and recommendations in clear, business friendly language to internal stakeholders and external suppliers. Own delivery of agreed architecture improvements, contribute to the future roadmap and transition plan, and ensure a structured handover with supporting documentation and knowledge transfer.