Azure FinOps Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Financial Conduct Authority

Description

Azure FinOps Analyst

Salary: National ranging from £51,200- £70,700and London from £56,400 - £80,600

Are you interested in joining a team at the forefront of operations, supporting all end users and partners in their day-to-day activities,and managing the FCA's end user services and associated suppliers?

The team/department

End User Compute provides change and run for a broad range of application and infrastructure services. We work in small cross functional, self-organising and autonomous teams, passionate about delivering value and having fun.

What you will be doing (the role)

The Azure FinOps Analyst sits in the End User Compute (EUC) Product Group and is responsible for monitoring Azure Cloud infrastructure and its usage, seeking to optimize value for the FCA. The role will drive FinOps best practices in the organization through education, standardization, and collaboration. The role will focus on monitoring and control, cost optimization and risk avoidance across the FCA's Azure estate. Key responsibilities include:

What you will get from the role

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum

We are a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

Essential

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Senior Associate role.

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want but we won't judge you for asking.

Multi-location

As part of the FCA's on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

Useful information

Applications for this role close at 23:59 on 8th May 2024

This role is graded as Senior Associate - Regulatory

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact:

For internal applicants, please contact Michael Wood, at k

For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis, at k

What to expect from our interview process

The assessment process comprises a first stage technical interview to discuss your FinOps experience and knowledge of Azure Cloud concepts. This will be followed by a competency-based interview. The final stage is a fireside chat to enable you to ask any final questions and meet further members of the team.

Application support

We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.

Security Clearance/Vetting

The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.

Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.