Senior FinOps Practitioner

OverviewOur client, located near Union Station, is looking for a FinOps Practitioner on a permanent basis. This is a Hybrid position - you will be expected to be in the office up to 2 times per week, steps from Union Station.RoleThis position is a pure FinOps role. Our client launched their FinOps practice almost 2 years ago. This is a perfect role for someone who wants to lead within one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers and make an impression.ResponsibilitiesThe Senior FinOps Practitioner will help define and evolve the FinOps practice. You will be responsible (in collaboration with Architects, Team Leads, Engineers, and IT Finance partners) for establishing effective reporting in line with Finance\'s requirements, building cost analysis dashboards to provide cloud spend insights and track cloud spend performance, establishing Cost Allocation processes, advising on the most cost-efficient products for cloud infrastructure and applications, and advising on systems optimizations from a cost perspective.Cloud Workload Analysis and Forecasting: Analyze spend trends, find opportunities for savings, and advise IT Team with specific recommendations for improvement.Provide reports and custom dashboards to share and visualize cost data.Work with Finance, and Application Development teams to set and track budgets within Azure.Explain Microsoft Cost Data to Financial Stakeholders.Provide guidance to application owners on effective forecasting within Azure.Use Azure Cost Management & Billing data, Cost API, Power BI and other tools to analyze Azure billing and Usage data.Work with Finance and Application Development teams on how to best define their tags in line with their products and revenue streams for effective reporting.Build and maintain pipelines for cloud cost data analysis and customizations.Feed data into cloud allocation and show-back models.Implement and manage automated tools to help identify cost trends, anomalies, and track budget (actuals vs estimates).Advise on most cost-effective and workload-appropriate products and configurations.Use Azure Advisor, anomaly detection and spend trends to recommend cost optimization actions, including right-sizing workloads, identifying potential savings plans or reserved capacity and contributing to conversations with Procurement to facilitate purchase of savings plans or reservations.Collaborate with DevOps team to implement FinOps deployments and automation within CI/CD pipelines.Collaborate with Infrastructure and Application Development teams on design of new services and system upgrades; participating in capacity planning, right sizing, tagging, and IaC automation.Collaborate with Enterprise IT teams on cloud asset tracking; ensuring all cloud assets are correctly recorded in CMDB and tracking OS and landing zone license compliance.Ensure compliance with Cloud Governance guidelines and guardrails, reporting non-compliant Cost Management relevant Azure Policies and recommending actions to address compliance gaps.Skills / Qualifications2-3 years of experience in cloud financial management with AzureIn-depth knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation, including operating systems, networking, storage, and securityMulti-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, and elastic scalabilityKnowledge of DevOps tool chains and processesAbility to articulate and understand a financial business caseExperience with data analytics using Python & SQL or other appropriate languageExperience building custom dashboards in ELK or other data analytics & visualization toolsExperience working with Azure Cost ManagementExperience working Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid environmentsSkilled in Power BI and API integrationSeniority levelMid-Senior levelEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionFinance and EngineeringIndustriesStaffing and Recruiting #J-18808-Ljbffr