LSEG · 4 hours ago
Azure Senior FinOps Engineer
St Louis, MO
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expLSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. They are seeking an Azure Senior FinOps Engineer to leverage financial operations expertise and technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure to manage, optimize, and govern cloud spending effectively.
ConsultingData ManagementDatabaseFinanceFinancial ServicesInfrastructureStock Exchanges
Responsibilities
Deep understanding of Azure Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data driven-insights
Ensure that the appropriate Azure Services are used in each environment to avoid overspending
Establish and track KPIs for Azure Cloud Financial Performance
Collaborate with the platform teams to ensure that the Cost Financial Management tooling is configured accurately across all environments
Construct dashboards to analyze costs trends and anomalies to be able to perform a root cause analysis
Automate the configuration and management of Cloud Financial Management tooling via APIs
Configure pipelines that run daily/nightly/weekly for automatic updates of these configurations and automatic reports generation
Ensure that the tagging standards are respected and new guidelines are implemented
Demonstrable eagerness to learn the latest industry trends and can translate how these services or technologies can improve cost / performance for our business stakeholders
Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimize performance and costs
Keep up to date with industry trends so that business collaborators and customers can be advised how to use the latest services to improve cost/performance ratios
Collaborate with other team members to understand and break down sophisticated requests using diagramming tools and team breakout sessions
Understand the needs of our internal customers: finance team, procurement team, business application team and propose new solutions to their challenges
Qualification
Required
At least 3-5 years working experience with Azure Cloud Services and performing optimizations via rightsizing/modernization
Performed evaluation of existing infrastructure and created processes for cost improvement without reducing performance
Experience working with REST APIs and crafting automation based on REST APIs
Experience with object-oriented programming in at least one language: Python preferred
At least 5+ years experience in a large-scale organisation in a similar role
Experience with bash scripting or PowerShell scripting
Have excellent debugging skills and a proactive attitude when performing deep dive analysis
Have a proactive and positive attitude and be open to adapt to the changes and new challenges
Be able to understand the business requirements and translate them into PoCs/new features that can be presented as demos to our collaborators, partners and customers
Presentation skills required
Fluent English language verbal and written communication skills are required
Preferred
Our candidate is familiar with the FinOps Foundation framework and has an understanding of what reaching maturity means
Holds a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
Ideally, the candidate will have good knowledge of roles and permissions at cloud level, having experience with RBAC management and least privileged access
Ideally the candidate should have working experience with a public Cloud Financial Cost Management product and what it means to reach 'run' maturity level
Understand common financial terms, key drivers, and concepts that Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams use day-to-day is important
Benefits
Healthcare
Retirement planning
Paid volunteering days
Wellbeing initiatives
Company
LSEG
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified international markets infrastructure business —earning our clients’ trust for over 300 years.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.19BKey Investors
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2022-12-11Post Ipo Secondary· $2B
Leadership Team
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Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Operating Officer
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