Who we are
Founded in 2002, Zafin offers a SaaS product and pricing platform that simplifies core modernization for top banks worldwide. Our platform enables business users to work collaboratively to design and manage pricing, products, and packages, while technologists streamline core banking systems.
With Zafin, banks accelerate time to market for new products and offers while lowering the cost of change and achieving tangible business and risk outcomes. The Zafin platform increases business agility while enabling personalized pricing and dynamic responses to evolving customer and market needs.
Zafin is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices and customers around the globe including ING, CIBC, HSBC, Wells Fargo, PNC, and ANZ. Zafin is proud to be recognized as a top employer and certified Great Place to Work® in Canada, India and the UK.
What’s the opportunity?
We are looking for a FinOps Cloud Architect to help design and implement financially optimized, scalable, and secure Azure cloud infrastructure. You will integrate FinOps principles, manage cost-effective cloud operations, and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure financial accountability and resource efficiency.
Mode of Work: Onsite at Thiruvananthapuram office.
What will you do?
- Design Financially Efficient Cloud Infrastructure: Assist in designing and implementing a secure and scalable Azure cloud infrastructure (including AKS), ensuring that it is cost-optimized and efficient.
- Integrate FinOps in Cloud Operations: Help adopt FinOps practices by integrating financial management into cloud provisioning and configuration, using tools like Terraform and Argo CD to improve cost accountability.
- Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Cost Efficiency: Assist in implementing IaC using Terraform, ensuring reusable configurations and cost-effective deployments with a clear understanding of Azure components’ behavior.
- Develop CI/CD Pipelines Focused on Cost Optimization: Contribute to creating automated workflows through CI/CD pipelines, ensuring resource usage is optimized and unnecessary costs are minimized.
- Support GitOps with Financial Oversight: Assist in maintaining Argo CD-based GitOps workflows for automated deployments with financial oversight to ensure cost-effective resource management.
- Implement Resilience and Performance with Cost Control: Help design self-healing and auto-scaling mechanisms that improve performance and resilience, ensuring cost control and operational efficiency.
- Drive FinOps Continuous Improvement: Lead initiatives to automate and optimize cloud cost management processes, driving continuous improvement in financial performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with Cloud Operations, Engineering, and FinOps teams to ensure smooth transitions and continuous knowledge sharing, embedding financial responsibility into cloud operations.
- Implement Cost Observability Solutions: Use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights to track costs and performance, setting up alerts and dashboards for better financial visibility.
- Deliver Financial Awareness Documentation: Create documentation to help development and operations teams understand and manage cloud costs effectively, empowering them with financial awareness.
- Provide L3/L4 Support with FinOps Perspective: Provide deep technical expertise in resolving incidents, focusing on minimizing costs and optimizing resource usage.
What do you need to succeed?
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure, with a focus on FinOps and cloud cost management.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure services, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and tools like Terraform, Argo CD, and Helm.
- In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, GitOps principles, and financial optimization.
- Proficiency in managing CI/CD pipelines with a focus on cost-effective Azure deployments (using Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Hands-on experience with Azure observability tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights) for monitoring and optimizing costs.
- Proficiency in scripting with Python or Bash to automate cost management tasks.
- Experience in designing cost allocation models and chargeback systems for Azure resources.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and promote financial accountability across teams.
Nice to have:
- FinOps certification or other relevant cloud certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals).
What’s in it for you
Joining our team means being part of a culture that values diversity, teamwork, and high-quality work. We offer competitive salaries, annual bonus potential, generous paid time off, paid volunteering days, wellness benefits, and robust opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. Want to learn more about what you can look forward to during your career with us? Visit our careers site and our openings: zafin.com/careers
Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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What We Do
Zafin, the global leader in SaaS cloud-native product and pricing solutions, is a trusted partner to the world’s most customer-centric financial institutions. Zafin’s product and pricing platform empowers banks of all sizes to center their customers, grow relationships and drive revenues.
The Zafin platform separates product and pricing from core processing to accelerate progressive modernization, enable digital transformation and deliver personalization at the relationship level.
A typical Zafin installation integrates easily with most back-end systems and customer-facing channels to increase product and pricing efficiency and agility, drive interest and non-interest income, and deliver a positive ROI—often in one year or less.
