⏰ Application Deadline: Tuesday 6th May at 23:55pm ⏰

👀 What will you be doing? 👀

FinOps in DDaT is a key practice that ensures cloud investments drive maximum business value through financial accountability and data-driven decision-making. It fosters collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams to increase cost visibility and optimize cloud spending without compromising performance.

As a FinOps Engineer, you will enhance cloud cost efficiency while ensuring operational resilience. Collaborating with SRE and Cloud Platform teams, you will refine capacity planning, optimize provisioning, and embed financial accountability into reliability engineering workflows.

You will leverage automation and observability tooling to monitor cloud expenditure in real time, identifying inefficiencies and ensuring cost-effective scaling strategies. Beyond direct cost optimization, you will drive financial awareness, training engineers on FinOps best practices and influencing cost-conscious cloud infrastructure decisions.

🚀 Your skills for this role 🚀

You'll have a strong foundation in FinOps engineering, with the following skills or experience:

• Contributing to the development of AWS and Azure architectures that are scalable, secure, and financially optimized to align with business objectives (Lead essential criteria)
• Enhancing cloud financial management by embedding cost accountability within CI/CD pipelines, ensuring efficient, automated, and secure cloud deployments
• Implementing financial observability tools, logging, and alerting solutions to track spending trends, prevent cost overruns, and support real-time financial decision-making
• Writing and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) scripts to enforce cost management policies, optimize resource provisioning, and ensure financial accountability in deployment strategies
• Defining and managing CI/CD pipelines that incorporate financial best practices, ensuring cost-efficient software delivery without compromising operational performance or security
• Implementing structured approaches to cloud resource allocation, ensuring financial efficiency through standardised naming, tagging, metadata, backups, and documentation

🙌 Why join us? 🙌

• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.

• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King's Birthday.

• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).

• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).

• Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.

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