Job Title: Cloud FinOps Practitioner
Contract Type: Twelve Month Fixed Term Contract, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: Circa £49,800 Depending on experience
Location: Eastleigh - Hybrid
Closing Date for applications: Friday 29th August
Join Ageas as a Cloud FinOps Practitioner on aTwelve-month Fixed Term Contract!!!
Cloud FinOps Practitioner: Join our IT Business Management Team as we build and mature our Cloud FinOps practice from the ground up. We're looking for a hands-on, experienced professional to lead financial strategy across our cloud environments—driving cost optimisation, shaping governance, and implementing robust reporting tools.
You’ll work closely with engineering, finance, and project teams to build a shared understanding of cloud costs, embed FinOps practices, and support financially efficient architecture choices. This is a rare chance to shape our FinOps culture and drive real, lasting impact across the organisation.
Main Responsibilities as Cloud FinOps Practitioner:
1. Lead the design and rollout of our Cloud FinOps practice, embedding processes, governance, and reporting frameworks across the organisation
2. Identify and implement cloud cost-saving strategies, including rightsizing, purchasing plans, and eliminating waste
3. Collaborate with technical and business teams to drive FinOps adoption and promote understanding of cloud economics
4. Build and maintain dashboards that track cloud spend, forecast costs, and provide actionable insights
5. Implement and enhance cloud cost management tools to automate analysis, optimization, and reporting
Skills and experience you need as Cloud FinOps Practitioner:
6. Proven success in establishing Cloud FinOps practices from the ground up, embedding financial accountability across cloud operations – preferably within the Financial Services Sector
7. Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, with strong proficiency in pricing models, native cost tools, and optimization techniques
8. Delivered impactful cost-saving initiatives by applying FinOps principles in multi-cloud, multi-team environments
9. Experienced in project management, driving FinOps implementations through structured planning, coordination, and execution
10. Skilled in data analysis and dashboard development to support cloud spend visibility, forecasting, and strategic decision-making.
11. Strong collaborator and communicator with automation experience (, Python, Terraform) and understanding of containerized cost Familiarity with Agile project delivery.
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family-Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.