Azure Billing Data Engineer
Role summary
Dice is seeking a senior Azure FinOps and billing subject matter expert for a 6+ month staff augmentation role in Dublin, CA. The position focuses on providing deep technical and functional advisory for Azure Cost Management and Billing data, including schema interpretation, SKU rationalization, and commitment model handling. Responsibilities include advising on and implementing Azure Reservations and Savings Plans, classifying SKUs, and contributing hands-on with SQL/KQL for data transformation when needed. Prior experience in FinOps, cloud economics, or cost and usage analytics is required. Experience with AWS CUR and GCP billing exports, and open table formats like Iceberg, is preferred.
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Duration:
6+ Months
Location:
Dublin, CA
Responsibilities/Requirements:
We are seeking a senior Azure FinOps and billing subject matter expert to support an ongoing public cloud cost and usage initiative. This is a staff augmentation role focused on providing deep technical and functional advisory around Azure Cost Management and Billing data, including schema interpretation, SKU rationalization, and commitment model handling. The role is primarily advisory, with hands on contribution where appropriate to validate approaches and accelerate delivery.
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 Google Cloud Platform 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.
