Our FinOps team are a group of Cloud and Finance specialists who collaborate with the business to advise, optimise, and operate cloud finance. As the company’s use of public cloud has grown so has our team to match business requirements to optimise costs, manage cloud consumption and engineering change.
Main Responsibilities
The Cloud FinOps Engineer is responsible for working with our business key collaborators, partners and customers to enable an efficient use of Cloud during the application lifecycle.
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.
Work with the platform teams to ensure the Cost Management toolsets and billing consoles are configured accurately using APIs wherever possible.
Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to encourage them to better use their resources, to highlight improvements to cost and performance
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.
Ensure that the tagging standards are respected, new guidelines implemented and review governance framework on a regular basis.
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 issues.
Look for opportunities to improve data accuracy by replacing “click-ops” using automation wherever possible.
Minimum Requirements
Experience working with REST APIs and crafting automation based on REST APIs;
Experience with object oriented programming in at least one language: Python preferred;
Have 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
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;
Bonus
Ideally, the candidate would have working experience with at least one public cloud provider or a certification: AWS, Azure or GCP.
Ideally, the candidate will have good knowledge of roles and permissions at cloud level, having experience with RBAC management and least privileged access.
Holds a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
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;
Experience with IaC using Terraform or other similar tool.
Our candidate is familiar with the FinOps Foundation framework and has an understanding of what reaching maturity means.
Benefits
We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!
We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:
25 days’ holiday per year
1 additional day off for your Birthday
Annual wellness allowance
Share Purchase Plan
Medical Health Insurance
Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
Dental Coverage
Life insurance
Pillar 3 Private Pension
Meal Vouchers
Flexible Benefits
Bookster
Volunteering Events
LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
