Role Summary
Own cost efficiency and financial accountability across Azure. This role focuses on practical execution of savings and governance, not theoretical optimization. You'll bring clarity to Azure spend, drive disciplined use of reservations and benefits, and prevent re-accumulation of waste.
Budgets and Forecasts are tools to guide behavior-not ends in themselves.
What You'll Do
• Cost Visibility & Attribution Build a clean Azure cost baseline by subscription, application, and owner. Identify structural cost drivers and recurring inefficiencies.
• Optimization Execution Lead Azure Reservation and Savings Plan strategies, including Hybrid Benefit usage. Drive cleanup of idle VMs, disks, snapshots, and runaway log/telemetry costs.
• Governance Improve tagging and subscription hygiene; support management group and policy enforcement. Establish lightweight guardrails that prevent obvious waste without slowing teams down.
• Forecasting & KPIs Produce rolling forecasts and budget views tied to real usage patterns. Track a small set of KPIs (coverage, utilization, waste reduction, realized savings).
• Collaboration Work directly with platform and product teams to align cost decisions with technical realities.
What Success Looks Like
Azure spend growth is explainable and intentional. Reservation and benefit strategies are actively managed, not set-and-forget. Waste is identified early and corrected quickly.
Required Experience
5+ years in FinOps or Azure cost management roles. Strong knowledge of Azure Cost Management, subscriptions, RBAC, and tagging. Proven experience implementing Azure Reservations/Savings Plans.
Nice to Have
Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305). Experience with Azure Policy for cost governance. SQL, Power BI, or similar analytical tooling.