Job Title: Azure FinOps Lead or Manager

Location: Issaquah, WA

Travel: No

Job Summary:

Looking for a skilled Azure Cloud FinOps Lead or Manager to join our team. Managing and optimizing cloud financial operations, ensuring cost efficiency and transparency in Azure cloud expenditures. This role involves working closely with finance, IT, and business teams to align cloud spending with organizational goals and drive financial accountability.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Cost Management:

Implement tagging across the full estate.

Monitor and analyze Azure cloud spending, identifying trends, anomalies, and opportunities for cost savings.

Implement and maintain cost allocation and chargeback models to accurately distribute cloud costs across departments or projects.

Utilize Azure Cost Management Billing tools to track and manage cloud expenses.

Implement proactive alerts, budgets, thresholds for subscriptions.

Optimization and Efficiency:

Develop and enforce cost optimization strategies, such as rightsizing resources, leveraging reserved instances, and eliminating unused assets.

Recommend and implement best practices for cost-effective use of Azure services.

Create optimization candidates to lower Azure cloud costs.

Conduct regular reviews and audits of cloud resource utilization and spend.

Financial Reporting and Analysis:

Generate and present detailed financial reports on cloud spending, budget forecasts, and cost optimization efforts.

Provide insights and recommendations to stakeholders based on financial data analysis.

Collaborate with finance teams to ensure accurate budgeting and forecasting of cloud expenses.

Governance and Compliance:

Establish and maintain cloud cost governance frameworks and policies.

Ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory financial policies.

Monitor adherence to cost management guidelines and practices.

Collaboration and Support:

Work closely with IT, DevOps, and business teams to align cloud usage with financial goals.

Provide training and guidance to team members on FinOps best practices and tools.

Participate in cross-functional meetings to discuss and address cloud financial management issues.

Continuous Improvement:

Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in cloud financial management (FinOps).

Propose and implement improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of cloud financial operations.

Evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to improve cost management processes.

3 years of experience in cloud financial management, preferably with a focus on Azure.

Technical Skills:

Proficiency in using Azure Cost Management Billing tools.

Strong understanding of cloud cost management principles and best practices.

Experience with financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services, particularly within Azure.

Preferred Qualifications:

Relevant certifications such as FinOps Certified Practitioner or Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals.

Experience with financial management tools and platforms like CloudHealth, Cloudability, or similar.

Knowledge of IT and cloud governance frameworks.

Life at Capgemini

Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work

• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs

• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan

• Paid time off and paid holidays

• Paid parental leave

• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation

• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring

• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs

• Employee Resource Groups

• Disaster Relief

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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Disclaimer

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.

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Job: Infrastructure

Organization: CIS US MS

Title: Azure FinOps Manager or Architect

Location: WA-Seattle

Requisition ID: 076531