FinOps Engineer – Azure

FinOps Engineer – Azure 6-month contract | Inside IR35 | Fully remote (UK preferred) We’re hiring a hands-on FinOps Engineer with strong Azure engineering experience to join a Cloud Centre of Excellence. This is a delivery-focused role combining cloud performance engineering + cost optimisation. You’ll work closely with platform and engineering teams to improve performance, reliability and cloud spend through practical, technical solutions. What you’ll do • Optimise Azure infrastructure for performance, scalability, reliability and cost • Analyse Azure usage and billing data to identify efficiency gains • Engineer cost-aware architectures and performance improvements • Translate technical changes into measurable financial savings • Embed FinOps practices into cloud engineering workflows • Build an optimisation roadmap across compute and platform services • Ensure platforms are resilient, observable and cost-optimised by default What we’re looking for • Strong Azure engineering background (beyond basics) • Proven FinOps experience (or SRE / Cloud Engineer with heavy cost optimisation focus) • Solid understanding of cloud pricing models and cost drivers • Experience improving infrastructure performance with financial impact • 7+ years relevant engineering experience • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills • Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Nice to have • Azure Solution Architect (or equivalent) • 3–5 years FinOps experience • PowerBI / Tableau reporting • VMware / on-prem environments • Observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Turbonomic, etc.) Contract • Duration: 6 months • IR35: Inside • Location: Fully remote (UK preferred) If this fits your background — or you know someone strong in Azure + FinOps — drop me a message.