Hiring For Azure FinOps Role - BDO RISE

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud FinOps professional with 8+ years of IT/Cloud experience covering 5+ years of Azure experience and 3+ years focused on Azure Cloud FinOps to drive cloud financial management, cost optimization, governance, and consumption transparency across Azure environments. The role will define and operationalize Cloud FinOps framework and practices, improve cost efficiency, align cloud spending with business value by bridging the gap between engineering, finance, and leadership.

Job Duties

Key Responsibilities:

1. Cost Optimization & Rightsizing

• Analyze Azure consumption patterns to identify waste, underutilized resources, architectural inefficiencies and anomaly detection.
• Drive engineering teams to implement rightsizing, modernizing architectures (e.g., IaaS to PaaS), and resource lifecycle management.
• Drive strategy & execution of Azure Reservations, Savings Plans, and Hybrid Benefit portfolios to maximize coverage and ROI.

2. Financial Governance & Accountability

• Design, implement, and maintain robust tagging, resource group, and management group architectures for accurate cost allocation.
• Partner with Finance to build granular show-back/chargeback models, ensuring business units are accountable for their cloud spend.
• Establish automated budgeting, forecasting models, and anomaly detection alerts using Azure Cost Management and native/third-party tools.
• Stakeholder & operating model: Partner with Cloud engineering Leaders, App owners, Finance and Leadership to build FinOps processes, KPIs, unit economics, Optimization roadmaps, and monthly FinOps reviews.

3. Culture & Collaboration (The FinOps Framework)

• Act as the subject matter expert to evangelize a cost-conscious culture across engineering and product teams.
• Lead regular FinOps review meetings with engineering squads, providing actionable insights and dashboards.
• Define and track key cloud unit metrics to align cloud spend with business growth.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Azure Expertise: 8+ years of hands-on IT/Cloud experience with 5+ years in Azure architectural design, deployment, or administration of Microsoft Azure services (Compute, Storage, Networking, AKS, ACA, Azure SQL, PaaS S etc.).
• Deep expertise in Azure Cost Management, Azure Advisor, Reservations, Savings Plans, Policy, Monitor, Log Analytics, Resource Graph, Management Groups, Landing Zones, RBAC, tagging strategy, and governance across IaaS/PaaS/SaaS workloads.
• Dedicated FinOps Experience: 3+ years of deep focus on Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) principles, framework lifecycle (Inform, Optimize, Operate), and FinOps practices.
• Tooling Proficiency: 3+ years of experience on Azure Cost Management + Billing, Azure Advisor, and Power BI for custom financial reporting. Experience with third-party tools (e.g., CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability) is a plus.
• Automation & Scripting: Strong ability to automate cost-governance guardrails using Azure Policy, Azure Automation, PowerShell, or CLI.

• Certifications (Highly Preferred):

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate.

• FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional is a plus

• Soft Skills: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex engineering concepts into financial impacts for business stakeholders, and vice versa.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Education:

• High school diploma or GED required
• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems or equivalent field preferred

Experience:

• Eight (8) or more years of experience with Azure Cloud administration is required
• Four (3) or more years of hands-on experience in Azure Cloud FinOps is required
• One (1) or more years of experience developing PowerBI dashboards is preferred
• Four (4) or more years of experience in leading and driving initiatives
• Demonstrated experience working as a team player

Software:

• Deep knowledge in Azure Cost Management + Billing, Azure Advisor, and Excel/Power BI for custom financial reporting
• Deep knowledge in Azure IaaS and PaaS technology
• Good knowledge in FinOps framework and processes, and capabilities preferred

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills
• Capacit…