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Job Title: Cloud FinOps Specialist
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65323
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Cloud FinOps Specialist at our Portsmouth site.
Job Title: Cloud FinOps Specialist
Location: Portsmouth + Remote Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65323
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Cloud FinOps Specialist at our Portsmouth site.
The role
As a Cloud FinOps Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role plays a pivotal part in driving financial efficiency and sustainability across our cloud infrastructure, ensuring azure expenditure delivers maximum value to the business.
Day-to-day, you’ll monitor and analyse cloud usage, identify cost-saving opportunities, collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation, and implement governance strategies to optimise cloud spend. You will also lead initiatives to reduce waste and improve financial transparency through reporting and education.
* Analyse Azure cloud usage to identify inefficiencies and cost-saving opportunities.
* Develop and maintain financial models for forecasting and internal cost recovery.
* Lead cloud cost optimisation initiatives and enforce governance policies.
* Collaborate with finance, IT, and leadership to align cloud spend with business goals.
* Create and maintain dashboards and reports to provide cost visibility to stakeholders.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is fully remote.
Essential Experience Of The Cloud FinOps Specialist
* Strong background in cloud financial management with a focus on cost optimisation, particularly within Microsoft Azure environments.
* Proficient in using Azure cost management tools and FinOps practices to forecast, track, and reduce cloud spend.
* Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and implement cloud cost governance at scale.
* Excellent analytical and communication skills, with experience presenting insights and leading workshops for diverse stakeholders.
* Proven success in delivering measurable cost savings in large, complex, and global cloud environments.
Qualifications For The Cloud FinOps Specialist
* A FinOps based qualification such as; FinOps Certified Practitioner, FinOps Certified Professional or FinOps Certified Engineer.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .
What We Offer
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* Employee share scheme
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
* Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
* ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
* Flexible locations
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 31/07/2025
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