Summary:

We are looking for a (Senior) FinOps Engineer to own and evolve our cloud financial operations on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Service with a primary focus on cost visibility, optimization, and financial governance across our cloud estate. You will be part of FinOps and Governance Team, working with topics such as detailed Azure billing and usage data into actionable insights, cost optimizations, and policies that maximize value from our cloud spend.

Key responsibilities
- Proactively monitor, collect, and analyze cloud usage/spending data to identify cost drivers, waste, and opportunities for optimization.
- Collaborate with application, platform, and data engineering teams to design costefficient architectures and embed FinOps practices into infrastructure design.
- Proactively follow up with resource group owners to act on cost optimization opportunities
- Develop and implement strategies and automation to reduce cloud costs, such as right-sizing resources, managing reserved instances (RIs) and Savings Plans, and implementing policy-as-code for resource governance.




- Drive a culture of financial accountability by implementing accurate cost allocation, showback/chargeback mechanisms for various cost lever, and creating clear, actionable cost visibility reports and dashboards for engineering and business stakeholders.
- Assist with developing and maintaining cloud cost forecasting models and tracking actual spend against budgets, providing alerts for anomalies or unplanned spikes.
- Partner closely with engineering, DevOps, finance, and business teams to embed FinOps principles into the application development lifecycle, providing guidance and training on cost-effective cloud architectures and best practices.
- Define, implement, and enforce proper resource tagging policies to ensure accurate cost attribution and allocation across business units, environments, and applications.
- Collaborate with cloud and SaaS service providers to understand pricing m

📌 FinOps Engineer Azure Cost Optimization (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Bengaluru