FinOps Lead

Role Title
Cloud Economics & Infrastructure FinOps Optimisation Lead

Location
UK (Hybrid)

Overview
This role is responsible for defining and driving a FinOps strategy across a complex hybrid estate, spanning on-premise infrastructure and public/private cloud platforms. The objective is to deliver measurable improvements in cost efficiency, performance, and financial transparency, ensuring infrastructure spend is aligned to business priorities without compromising service quality or resilience.

Operating across technology and finance, you will establish the frameworks, governance, and cultural adoption required to embed FinOps as a core capability across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement a FinOps strategy across cloud and on-premise environments
• Drive optimisation initiatives across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private infrastructure
• Establish cost governance, policies, and best practices across engineering teams
• Deliver improved cost visibility, allocation, and forecasting capabilities
• Partner with engineering, finance, and procurement to align spend with business outcomes
• Implement and optimise tooling for cost management and reporting
• Lead the adoption of showback/chargeback models to drive accountability
• Identify and deliver cost reduction and efficiency opportunities across compute, storage, and network
• Ensure optimisation efforts maintain or improve system performance and reliability
• Provide clear reporting and insights to senior stakeholders

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in FinOps, cloud cost optimisation, or infrastructure financial management
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, and/or GCP pricing and optimisation levers
• Experience operating in hybrid infrastructure environments
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to translate technical data into business value
• Experience implementing governance frameworks and influencing engineering behaviours
• Strong stakeholder management across technology and finance functions
• Experience with FinOps tooling and cost analytics platforms

What Success Looks Like

• Clear ownership and visibility of infrastructure spend
• Measurable reduction in unnecessary cost and improved efficiency
• Improved forecasting accuracy and financial control
• Strong alignment between engineering decisions and financial outcomes
• Embedded FinOps culture across teams