Bupa UK
Cloud FinOps Lead
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Job Description
Cloud FinOps Lead
Permanent: hybrid, up to 3 days WFH
Locations: London or Staines
Salary: from £70k DOE + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Flexibility: We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours, and working patterns
We make health happen
At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients, and residents in mind, you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.
Right from the start, you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.
In this role you will:
- Lead the adoption and continuous improvement of financial management practices to maximize measurable business value realized from technology investments.
- Cultivate relationships with technical teams and support them to optimize technology consumption and maximize business value.
How You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen
- Implement and evolve financial management and value optimization practices across technology services at Bupa, with a particular focus on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AI services, and associated infrastructure and platform services.
- Lead a small team to operate Bupa’s financial management and optimization capability, with an initial focus on cloud and AI services.
- Proactively engage stakeholders to understand and manage their costs, consumption patterns, investment priorities, and efficiency realization.
- Lead technology optimization, value management, and cost management processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness of technology consumption, partnering with designers, engineers, and technical managers to implement and track the benefits of these opportunities.
- Optimize commercial pricing and rates. Lead and manage a portfolio of technology financial commitments, utilization, and support contractual processes to optimize value from investments.
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You
- Professional experience in information technology operations.
- Experience in technology or cloud financial management practices, including budgeting, forecasting, spend tracking, and evolving cost management capabilities.
- Practical knowledge of cost management capabilities, pricing models, FinOps practices, and using cloud consumption analysis to derive actionable insights.
- Experience with Azure / GCP / OCI operations, governance, and cloud financial management.
- Experience with cloud optimization practices (e.g., capacity planning, rightsizing, tagging) or cloud cost optimization tools (e.g., Cloudability, CloudHealth).
- Understanding of the DevOps way of working.
- A strong analytical background, with attention to detail.
- Track record of building strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
- Experience in leading people.
- A desire to be 'hands on' with cloud reporting, PowerBI, Excel, etc.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing program and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.
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Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with an option to buy or sell.
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym is available.
- Various other benefits and online discounts.
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type
Full time
Job Area
IT
Locations
Angel Court, London
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