Senior Azure FinOps Engineer 100% (f/m/d)

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let's shape the future of wealth management together. As a Senior Azure FinOps Engineer, you will be a key member of our Cloud Engineering team, responsible for establishing and driving FinOps practices across our Azure platform. You will serve as the central point of contact for cloud cost optimisation, transparency, forecasting, and governance, working closely with engineering teams, finance, procurement, Microsoft specialists, and internal customers. Your mission is to maximise the business value of our Azure investments by continuously optimizing cloud consumption, purchasing models, and platform design. Through data-driven insights and close stakeholder collaboration, you will promote cost awareness, financial accountability, and sustainable cloud growth across the organization. This role is expected to establish and mature the Azure FinOps capability and may evolve into a leading role within a future FinOps practice or team.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Establish, own, and continuously improve FinOps practices, processes, and governance across the Azure platform
• Analyse Azure consumption and spending patterns, identify optimisation opportunities, and drive initiatives to reduce cloud costs through usage and rate optimisation
• Guide cloud engineers and architects in designing, implementing, and operating cost-efficient cloud solutions
• Define and support the implementation of cost allocation, showback, and chargeback models across business units and customers
• Support stakeholders and customers with cost estimations, budgeting, forecasting and financial impact assessments for new projects and cloud initiatives
• Develop dashboards, reporting, alerts, and cost insights for engineering teams, management, finance, procurement, and customers to improve cost transparency and budget control
• Periodically review and consolidate Azure Advisor recommendations, reservations, savings plans, licensing options, and optimisation opportunities together with Microsoft specialists and internal stakeholders
• Proactively promote cost awareness and accountability by challenging resource consumption patterns and helping customers optimise their cloud usage

YOUR PROFILE

• Several years of hands-on experience in Azure engineering, Azure platform operations, cloud architecture, cloud financial management, or FinOps
• Proven experience managing and optimising Azure consumption, costs, budgets, reservations, savings plans and licensing models
• Strong understanding of Azure services, subscriptions, management groups, resource governance, tagging strategies and cloud-native architectures
• Experience establishing cost transparency through reporting, budgeting, forecasting, anomaly detection and cost governance processes by using tools such as Power BI or Azure Monitor
• Ability to translate technical cloud consumption data into actionable recommendations and business-relevant insights for management and stakeholders
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments; experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries is an advantage
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a comparable discipline (HF/FH/University)
• Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure administration, engineering, governance and cost management
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, automation, cloud governance frameworks, and container and cloud platforms, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), is beneficial
• Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-305) and FinOps Certified Practitioner certification are highly desirable
• Excellent communication, consulting and stakeholder management skills combined with a strong analytical mindset, high level of initiative, ability to work independently and a collaborative, customer-focused approach

Why join Julius Baer?

The international reference in wealth management Julius Baer is the leading Swiss wealth management group. We focus on servicing and advising sophisticated private clients from around the world, taking into account what truly matters to them – in their business and personal life, today and for future generations. Headquartered in Zurich, we are present in around 60 locations worldwide, including Bangkok, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Monaco, Mumbai, Santiago de Chile, Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo.

We are growing quickly, but we remain dedicated to maintaining our accessible structure with flat hierarchies, and approachable and supportive leaders. With offices around the world, we offer an international and stimulating work environment and the opportunity to work with a diverse team of highly motivated colleagues, bringing the best of the bank to our clients.

Our core values of Care, Passion, and Excellence define the tone of how we interact with each other and our partners.

Committed to your success: Whether nurturing young talent with our renowned apprentice scheme, enabling ambitious university graduates to put theory into practice with our Graduate Programme, or providing first-class opportunities for experienced professionals, we look after our employees. We believe in continuous learning as a company and as individuals, which is why we put a focus on the health and well-being of our employees and offer flexible working options, a wide array of benefits, and extensive career development programmes.

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