## About the Role

As Lead FinOps, you will help clients understand, control, and optimize cloud spending, with a particular focus on IaaS resources. Your role is also to define the organization, processes, and tools that make FinOps part of the daily operating model for technical teams.

You will work closely with client IT and finance stakeholders, as well as architects, to improve cost predictability while preserving the stability of technical environments. The position is client-facing and supports major CAC40 organizations in sectors such as aerospace, space, defense, security, and digital identity.

## Key Responsibilities

– Analyze cloud usage and implement cost optimization actions across cloud services, especially IaaS.
– Deploy and operate tools to track cost trends, detect anomalies, and compare actual spend with forecasts.
– Define and monitor budgets based on client needs, including accounts, projects, and cost centers.
– Partner with technical teams to design new services in the most cost-effective way and improve the efficiency of existing services.
– Work with finance teams on budgeting, forecasting, tagging, FinOps KPIs, SLA analysis, and reporting requirements.
– Help embed FinOps practices through the right operating model, processes, and tools.

## Required Skills

– Background as an infrastructure and automation consultant.
– Engineering degree or Master 2 in Computer Science/IT.
– First professional experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and Python.
– Solid knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, and Kubernetes.
– Strong interpersonal skills, service orientation, and a focus on quality.
– Comfortable working in a team environment.
– Fluent in French and English.

## Preferred Skills

– Interest in building a career in infrastructure automation and private or hybrid cloud environments.
– Exposure to AWS, Azure, GCP, or OVH.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Azure
– GCP
– OVH
– OVHcloud

### Infrastructure as Code & Automation
– Terraform
– Ansible
– PowerShell
– Python

### Operating Systems & Platforms
– Windows Server
– Linux
– Kubernetes
– SUSE
– VMware

### DevOps / Platform Tools
– GitLab
– HashiCorp
– Dynatrace
– VEEAM

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Optimize cloud costs, with emphasis on IaaS.
– Monitor cost trends, anomalies, and actual spend versus forecast.
– Define and track budgets by account, project, cost center, and other client structures.
– Improve cost efficiency for new and existing services in collaboration with technical teams.
– Support budgeting, forecasting, tagging, FinOps KPIs, SLA analysis, and reporting with finance stakeholders.
– Put in place the processes and tools needed to make FinOps sustainable in day-to-day operations.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to shape FinOps practices that have a direct impact on cloud cost control and predictability. It combines technical optimization with close collaboration across IT, finance, and architecture teams. You will work with major clients in critical sectors and contribute to multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud projects. The position also gives exposure to infrastructure automation and a broad cloud technology stack.