Technical Cloud Security Architect (Azure/FinOps)

Location: Brussels, Belgium. Hybrid consultancy role with client-site attendance in Brussels twice a week; Thursday is a fixed on-site day. Available from 2027-01-01.

Company

hirify.global delivers cloud architecture and FinOps consultancy engagements for clients.

What you will do

• Design secure, scalable Azure architectures across compute, storage, networking, databases, identity, and platform services.
• Analyse utilisation, right-size workloads, optimise SKUs and storage, and implement autoscaling, scheduling, reservations, savings plans, and unused-resource removal.
• Maintain Azure Cost Management and Power BI dashboards covering actual and amortised costs, forecasts, budgets, anomalies, commitment utilisation, allocation coverage, and verified savings.
• Implement tagging, cost allocation, budgets, alerts, governance, and FOCUS-aligned consolidated reporting with Finance, Procurement, engineering, and operations.
• Automate provisioning, cost controls, reporting, and policy checks with Terraform and PowerShell or Python, integrating estimates and guardrails into CI/CD pipelines.
• Document architecture and cost decisions, validate production outcomes, support purchasing decisions, and train client teams on sustainable optimisation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of experience designing, implementing, or operating cloud solutions, primarily on Microsoft Azure, including at least 2 years of hands-on production cloud cost optimisation.
• Hands-on Azure expertise across compute, storage, networking, identity, databases, and platform services, while maintaining security, performance, resilience, availability, compliance, and recovery requirements.
• Production experience with right sizing, autoscaling, resource scheduling, storage optimisation, unused-resource removal, SKU and pricing-tier reviews, reservations, savings plans, and licence benefits.
• Experience delivering optimisation changes and verifying measured savings against documented baselines.
• Azure Cost Management, cost-data exports, Power BI or equivalent dashboarding, cost allocation, billing and utilisation analysis, and FOCUS concepts for consolidated reporting.
• Practical Terraform and PowerShell or Python experience for cloud automation, plus experience integrating cost controls into CI/CD pipelines using Azure Policy, tagging, budgets, and alerts.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service cost drivers, resource requests, limits, and scaling.
• Current FinOps Certified Engineer or FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst certification from the FinOps Foundation, evidenced by a certificate or verifiable digital credential with the application.
• French at C1 or Dutch at C1, and English at C2, written and spoken.
• Ability to collaborate with Finance, Procurement, engineering, and operations; communicate technical and financial trade-offs; maintain accurate billing data; and produce architecture decisions, cost comparisons, implementation plans, and operational guidance.

Culture & Benefits

• Consultancy work across greenfield builds and complex production environments with varied client workloads.
• Mentorship, knowledge-sharing forums, certification guidance, structured reviews, and hands-on learning through client engagements.
• Values include ownership, transparency, craftsmanship, curiosity, teamwork, measurable results, data accuracy, and secure-by-design changes.
• Work with client and hirify.global stakeholders in a federated IT environment, documenting decisions, evidence, outcomes, and reusable patterns.

Hiring process

• Apply through the hirify.global Career Portal.
• Include a certificate or verifiable digital credential for the relevant FinOps Foundation certification with the application.