Cloud FinOps Engineer: Azure Platform & Capacity

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Healthcare

Life assurance

Training & career progression

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in London is seeking a Cloud FinOps leader to optimise cloud spend and governance across Azure, and hybrid cloud platforms. You will collaborate with Operations and Engineering to drive cost‑aware practices and improve visibility, forecasting and governance of cloud spend.

The role focuses on establishing standards for consumption, leveraging AI‑driven insights and balancing cost efficiency with resilience, security and delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong platform engineering or cloud architecture background, particularly in Azure.
• Experience improving cloud economics, utilisation, capacity planning or platform cost management within an enterprise environment.
• Understanding of public cloud, private cloud, Kubernetes, virtual machines and subscription‑based engineering platforms.
• Able to influence technology decisions, challenge existing practices and drive adoption of better engineering behaviours.
• Understand the risks associated with your role and what that means for the company and all stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the company’s next‑generation approach to cloud economics, platform consumption and capacity management across Azure, Rackspace and engineering platforms such as GitHub and Copilot.
• Work closely with Operations and Engineering teams to improve visibility, drive optimisation opportunities and embed cost‑conscious engineering practices into the software delivery lifecycle.
• Define and evolve FinOps, capacity management and consumption management practices for NextGen platforms.
• Partner with Operations teams to improve forecasting, reporting and governance across cloud, infrastructure and engineering tooling spend.
• Drive optimisation opportunities through architecture, instance selection, scheduling, utilisation management and automation.
• Establish standards, guardrails and reporting that enable teams to make informed technical and financial decisions.
• Leverage AI and data‑driven insights to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Influence engineering teams to adopt cost‑conscious behaviours without compromising resilience, security or delivery outcomes.

Skills

Azure

Cloud architecture

FinOps

Cost management

Kubernetes

VMs

Platform governance

Tools

GitHub

Copilot

Azure Cost Management

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in London is seeking a Cloud FinOps leader to optimise cloud spend and governance across Azure, and hybrid cloud platforms. You will collaborate with Operations and Engineering to drive cost‑aware practices and improve visibility, forecasting and governance of cloud spend.

The role focuses on establishing standards for consumption, leveraging AI‑driven insights and balancing cost efficiency with resilience, security and delivery outcomes.