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You own how Azure billing actually works across every commercial construct Microsoft sells through - and how cost gets allocated, recovered, and reduced on top of it.\nAzure billing is not one system. An EA enrollment, an MCA billing account, a CSP/partner-managed tenant, and an MSP-resold estate expose different hierarchies, data shapes, and discount mechanics. Someone who has only rightsized VMs has not done this job. We need someone who has stood inside these billing models, reconciled them against invoices, and built showback and chargeback a finance team accepted.\nKey Responsibilities\nAzure Billing and Commercial Models (Primary)\nOwn the product's model of Azure billing across EA, MCA, CSP/Partner-led, and MSP-resold estates - including where each behaves differently and what breaks when you assume they don't\nDefine how the platform represents the billing hierarchy: EA enrollment → departments → accounts, and MCA billing account → billing profiles → invoice sections → subscriptions\nSpecify handling for discounts, credits, refunds, and adjustments - negotiated pricing, partner earned credit, promotional and sponsorship credits, commitment drawdown, service credits, mid-cycle corrections\nReconcile usage data against invoices; define product behavior when they disagree, and where amortized, actual, and effective cost must be reported separately\nMap billing roles (Enterprise Admin, Billing Profile Owner/Contributor, Invoice Section Reader, Partner Center roles) to what the product can see at each tier\nAllocation, Showback, Chargeback, and Budgets\nDesign allocation models that survive real estates - tag, subscription, and management-group driven - with a defensible method for shared and unallocatable cost\nDefine showback and chargeback as separate product behaviors with different accuracy and auditability bars; specify markup and margin handling for MSP/CSP resale\nOwn reservation and Savings Plan benefit attribution and amortization presentation\nOwn budget design across all Azure scopes, with actual vs. forecasted alerts, action groups, and automated response; set a real signal-to-noise bar for anomaly detection\nCost Optimization\nDefine and validate optimization recommendations - rightsizing, idle and orphaned resources, disk and snapshot cleanup, SKU upgrades, storage tiering, Log Analytics ingestion, egress\nOwn commitment strategy: RI and Savings Plan coverage, utilization, breakeven, scope choice, exchange and refund rules, Azure Hybrid Benefit\nSet the accuracy bar for every savings claim the product makes - the calculation, the assumptions, and what makes it defensible to a CFO\nProduct Partnership and Engineering\nAct as the technical authority on Azure cost and billing behavior for PM and engineering; turn Cost Management, Consumption, Billing, Partner Center, and Retail Prices API behavior into implementable requirements\nPressure-test proposed features against how practitioners work; validate shipped capability against live estates and report gaps honestly\nAutomate billing data collection, normalization, and reconciliation; build reference environments across billing models\nProduce enablement material for Sales, CS, and Support; support high-stakes customer conversations; mentor engineers and PMs on Azure cost fundamentals\nDesired Skills and Requirements\nMust Have\nHands-on experience across at least three of: EA, MCA, CSP/Partner-led, MSP-resold billing - with a clear account of how they differ\nDemonstrated understanding of billing accounts, billing profiles, invoice sections, and billing groups, and how EA departments/accounts differ from the MCA model\nPractical experience with discounts, credits, refunds, and adjustments - and how each surfaces, or fails to surface, in usage data\nBuilt or operated a showback and chargeback model that a finance function accepted\nHands-on cost allocation design, including shared-cost treatment and commitment benefit attribution\nBudgets and alerts at multiple Azure scopes, including forecasted-spend alerts and automated response\nAbility to reconcile usage data against an invoice and explain a variance\nOwnership of Azure cost outcomes on estates of $500K+ annual spend across multiple subscriptions and regions, with documented 20%+ reductio - including how savings were measured\nDeep knowledge of Azure commercial mechanics: RIs, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, Dev/Test pricing, spot, Azure Plan\nFluency with Azure Cost Management, cost exports, and the Consumption, Billing, and Retail Prices APIs\nStrong grasp of resource-level cost drivers - compute families, disk tiers, storage tiers and lifecycle, egress, Log Analytics retention, PaaS SKUs\nAzure Policy, RBAC, and management groups as they apply to cost control; billing roles understood as distinct from resource RBAC\nPowerShell and Azure CLI; Python or equivalent for analysis; Terraform or Bicep; ability to query large billing datasets (SQL, KQL, or pandas)\nClear written communication - can explain a recommendation to an engineer and its financial impact to a finance stakeholder\nPreferred Skills\nFinOps Foundation certification; familiarity with the FOCUS billing-data specification\nPrior Azure MSP, CSP/Partner Center reseller, or enterprise CCoE experience\nThird-party cost platforms - CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Finout, Vantage\nBuilt or shaped a cloud cost product, internal cost platform, or billing reporting system\nAzure Lighthouse and multi-tenant delegated management\nMarketplace and third-party billing, Support plan cost, non-Microsoft charges on an Azure invoice\nAI/ML cost management - Azure OpenAI token economics, GPU capacity planning, inference cost\nAWS or GCP billing models for multi-cloud context; Azure Arc, Stack HCI, or hybrid cost scenarios\nExperience\n8-12 years in cloud infrastructure or operations, with an Azure specialty\n4-5 years with FinOps, cloud billing, or cloud cost management as a primary responsibility\nWorking alongside product or engineering teams as a domain expert is a strong plus\nEducation\nBachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field - or equivalent demonstrated experience","description_format":"text","description_chars":6283,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cloud Cost & Multi-Cloud Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T07:04:35Z"}],"liveness":{"score":69,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.772,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":31,"expected_fill_days":49,"reasons":["conf:47","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/montycloud-staff-cloud-solutions-engineer-azure","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/montycloud-staff-cloud-solutions-engineer-azure.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T02:02:36Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2154,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2846,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}