Lead Azure FinOps Analyst
State Farm · Tempe, AZ · Yesterday
Analyst$107k–$142k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Influence enterprise-wide cloud financial strategy across a multi-million-dollar Azure environment.
- Partner directly with senior leaders across Engineering, Information Security, Finance, Architecture, and Cloud Platform organizations.
- Drive next-generation AI for FinOps capabilities including intelligent anomaly detection, optimization recommendations, automated reporting, and decision support.
- Help optimize Azure commitments, discount programs, and consumption strategies to maximize business value.
- Design intelligent automation that safely eliminates cloud waste and improves operational efficiency.
- See the measurable impact of your work by helping manage and optimize over nine figures of annual cloud spend.
- Be part of a highly collaborative, innovative team that encourages experimentation, continuous learning, and new ideas.
Qualifications
- Strong experience working with Microsoft Azure in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Experience using Azure native cost management, billing, and governance capabilities.
- Understanding of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies.
- Strong knowledge of Azure cost drivers including: Compute, Storage, Networking, Commitments and reservations, Utilization patterns, Advanced SQL skills with experience analyzing large datasets.
- Experience developing dashboards and reports using Power BI.
- Experience working with APIs, scripting, or automation technologies such as Python, SQL, infrastructure tooling, or workflow orchestration platforms.
- Strong analytical, conceptual thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to both engineering and business audiences.
- Curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge conventional thinking.
- Comfortable experimenting with new ideas and learning from failure to drive innovation.