5. FinOps Engineer Summary Brings financial accountability to cloud usage by tracking spend, driving optimization, and enforcing governance, working across engineering, finance, and leadership.
Responsibilities Monitor, analyze, and forecast Azure spend using Cost Management, Power BI, and custom dashboards Implement tagging standards and cost allocation (showback/chargeback) by team, product, and environment Identify and drive optimization: rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, reserved instances, savings plans, spot usage, and storage tiering Track and optimize Databricks spend: DBU consumption by workspace, job, and team using billing system tables; job vs all-purpose compute; serverless vs classic; autoscaling and auto-termination; and committed-use planning Define and enforce resource governance: budgets, quotas, alerts, and Azure Policy for tagging and approved SKUs, plus Databricks cluster policies and custom tags for cost attribution Automate cost controls (e.g., shutdown schedules for non-production,



anomaly alerts) Partner with engineering teams to review architectures for cost efficiency Prepare regular cost reports and present insights to stakeholders Promote FinOps culture and practices across the organization Required Qualifications 3+ years in cloud operations, cost management, or FinOps Strong knowledge of Azure pricing models and billing, including Databricks DBU-based pricing Experience with cost analysis tools and data visualization Ability to translate technical usage into financial insight Scripting skills for automating reporting and cost controls Preferred Qualifications FinOps Certified Practitioner Experience with third-party tools (Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Kubecost) Understanding of Kubernetes cost allocation Experience building Databricks cost dashboards from system tables

📌 Finops Engineer (Málaga)
🏢 Infinity Quest - UK
📍 Málaga