FinOps Engineer

Telefonica Tech; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in the UK is seeking a FinOps Engineer to drive cloud cost optimization and efficiency. The role involves analyzing cost-saving initiatives, implementing optimizations in Azure, AWS, and GCP environments, and advising clients on architectural decisions. Ideal candidates should have hands-on experience in FinOps, strong DevOps skills, and relevant certifications. This full-time position allows for remote work, promoting a diverse and inclusive culture in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience with FinOps tools for optimizing cloud costs.
• Strong understanding of FinOps principles and frameworks.
• Experience implementing cloud cost optimizations across different platforms.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud cost optimization recommendations and calculate potential savings.
• Implement usage optimizations within public cloud environments.
• Guide customers in making cost-effective architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with teams to design and implement best practices.

Skills

FinOps implementation experience

Understanding of FinOps framework

Experience with cloud cost management tools

DevOps skills (Terraform, Ansible)

Strong numerical and finance skills

Education

FinOps Practitioner certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification

Tools

IBM Cloudability

KubeCost

ServiceNow

Job description

FinOps Engineer

As a FinOps Engineer you will help to drive cost optimisation and efficiency in cloud environments. This is a hands‑on role that will help organisations drive cost efficiencies in their cloud environments by continually aligning FinOps capabilities to continuously optimise spend and deliver maximum value from their public cloud investment.

Key Responsibilities

• Examine analyse prioritise cloud cost optimisation recommendations and calculate potential savings and benefits using FinOps tools
• Implement rate and usage optimisations within public cloud environments (Azure AWS and GCP)
• Guide our customers in making cost‑effective architectural decisions
• Communicate FinOps principles to key stakeholders with our customers
• Collaborate with managed services teams to design and implement cost optimisations recommendations and best practices.
• Build and manage a backlog on cost‑saving initiatives
• Architect and develop automation runbooks to help drive cloud cost efficiencies along with continual development of Policy as Code initiatives further bolstering Cloud Cost Governance

Skills / Experience

• Hands on experience implementing FinOps to optimise cloud costs with deep understanding of levers available to optimise cloud costs
• Strong understanding of the FinOps Framework capabilities lifecycle and domains
• Hands on experience with native and 3rd party public cloud cost management tools such as IBM Cloudability and KubeCost
• ServiceNow experience as a Cloud Management Platform
• Strong DevOps skills including Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation along with RedHat Ansible
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships
• Highly strong numerical and finance skills to investigate data and spot trends and anomalies

Qualifications

• Certifications such as FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Professional
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
• Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification

Additional Information

At Telefónica Tech we believe inclusion is the bridge that empowers everyone to be their authentic selves. We celebrate and respect our differences because diversity drives innovation and makes us stronger.

Be yourself with us and feel that you belong.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We are also committed to equity accessible hiring practices and creating an inclusive culture through many means including TogetHer (Women’s network) and our Employee Resource Groups which include Diversity and Inclusion, Telefónica Tech Pride, Neurodiversity, ELEVATE (African and Caribbean heritage network) and Sustainability.

We dont believe hiring is a tick box exercise so if you feel that you dont match the job description 100% but would still be a great fit for the role please get in touch.

Remote Work: Yes

Employment Type: Full-time

Vacancy: 1