Required experience
· Deep, hands-on experience working with Azure Cost Management and Billing data in real production environments.
· Strong understanding of how Azure billing maps to actual infrastructure, including VM sizes and series, managed disks, storage tiers, networking charges, and platform services.
· Proven experience advising on and implementing Azure Reservations and Azure Savings Plans, including nuanced handling of fees, usage, and eligible SKUs.
· Experience classifying and normalizing large volumes of Azure SKUs into logical product hierarchies suitable for FinOps and analytics use cases.
· Ability to read, review, and reason about SQL and/or KQL used for billing data transformation, with the capability to contribute hands on when required.
· Prior experience in FinOps, cloud economics, cloud billing, or cost and usage analytics roles.
· Comfortable operating in a senior advisory capacity within a staff augmentation engagement.
Nice to have
· Experience aligning Azure billing models with AWS CUR and GCP billing exports.
· Familiarity with open table formats such as Iceberg and cloud agnostic analytics stacks.
· Experience working with custom or nonvendor standard cost models rather than off the shelf FinOps frameworks.
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