Job Details:
- Job Title : FinOps Engineer
- Job Type : B2B Contract
- Job Location : Spain – Remote
FinOps Engineer
Summary
Brings financial accountability to cloud usage by tracking spend, driving optimization, and enforcing governance, working across engineering, finance, and leadership.
Responsibilities
• Monitor, analyze, and forecast Azure spend using Cost Management, Power BI, and custom dashboards
• Implement tagging standards and cost allocation (showback/chargeback) by team, product, and environment
• Identify and drive optimization: rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, reserved instances, savings plans, spot usage, and storage tiering
• Track and optimize Databricks spend: DBU consumption by workspace, job, and team using billing system tables; job vs all-purpose compute; serverless vs classic; autoscaling and auto-termination; and committed-use planning
• Define and enforce resource governance: budgets, quotas, alerts, and Azure Policy for tagging and approved SKUs, plus Databricks cluster policies and custom tags for cost attribution
• Automate cost controls (e.g., shutdown schedules for non-production, anomaly alerts)
• Partner with engineering teams to review architectures for cost efficiency
• Prepare regular cost reports and present insights to stakeholders
• Promote FinOps culture and practices across the organization
Required Qualifications
• 3+ years in cloud operations, cost management, or FinOps
• Strong knowledge of Azure pricing models and billing, including Databricks DBU-based pricing
• Experience with cost analysis tools and data visualization
• Ability to translate technical usage into financial insight
• Scripting skills for automating reporting and cost controls
Preferred Qualifications
• FinOps Certified Practitioner
• Experience with third-party tools (Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Kubecost)
• Understanding of Kubernetes cost allocation
• Experience building Databricks cost dashboards from system tables
