Cloud FinOps Manager  

Salary & Benefits: We are offering a competitive salary (up to £73,855) dependent on experience, a company car lease/allowance scheme, annual incentive related bonus (up to 10% of annual salary), private health care, attractive pension scheme (Up to 10% company contribution), life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary and 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and a wellness day. We also offer a fantastic flexible benefits package, where you can choose from benefits such as health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.  Colleagues also have access to a retail savings scheme, online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more! 

Location: Bradford / Hybrid Working 

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday.  

We have an exciting opportunity for a Cloud FinOps Manager to join the Tech Change at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you? 

What we do: 

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this. 

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.  

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Tech Change are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.   

Our Cloud FinOps Manager is a highly technical and strategic role where you will be responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting cost management practices, develop cost optimization, recommend rightsizing, create and implement management models, define FinOps tools and processes. You will play a key role in implementing the Cloud strategy while becoming familiar with new emerging technologies and public cloud services.  

As this is a Leadership role you will require significant Stakeholder Management skills and  advanced technical skills and knowledge.   

You will be able to lead the development of metrics to influence technology teams on best practice for cloud development and develop long and short term product and service strategy and plans and coordinate the implementation to the business area.  

Where you fit in: 

As our Cloud FinOps Manager you will  

• Have previously worked with cloud providers such as Azure, AWS and GCP and understand cloud costing and billing.  

• Be experienced in public cloud, architecture, cloud strategy, networking, security, compliance workload types, standards and migration tools. 

• Comfortable with suggesting technical and innovative decisions, obtaining customer consensus and delivering on commitments.  

• Have experience with cloud budget management process, cloud cost analysis and optimization.  

• Have working Knowledge of IaaS, PaaS services and cloud technologies, e.g. Databricks, AKS, ADF, Log Analytics, Load Balancing, Disaster recovery.  

• Be able to establish cloud cost management processes in a large organization.  

What skills & qualifications you will need: 

• Strong commercial and supplier management skills   

• Significant experience of influencing senior stakeholders   

• Experience of the design and development of IT solutions inc. effective delivery governance and portfolio management concepts  

• Extensive Experience of working in Agile / Scaled Agile & DevSecOps delivery methodologies.  

• Extensive Experience of working with digital and cloud technologies, specifically Azure.  

• Educated to degree level and or with appropriate professional qualification.  

You will also benefit from having: 

• An understanding of the Utilities environment.  

• Relevant certifications such as Azure, PMP, GCP, NSE, ITILv4, MCSM, MCA, or MCM.  

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization. 

• Financial analysis of the environment, creating reports and data analytics to reinforce technical and strategic decisions. 

Although our assets are operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year the company is committed to support flexible work patterns and job share options, where possible, to give you more control over your time and responsibilities. Whether you have child-care responsibilities or are looking for the ideal work-life balance our flexible options can offer work patterns that suit your needs. 

If you’re an experienced within Cloud FinOps and want to help us deliver exceptional service for our customers whilst protecting the environment, then apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer for you. 

We are proud to serve the Yorkshire region and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.  

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.   

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.