FinOps Practitioner

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,931 and EUR 7,043 (scale 09).
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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Are you ready to strengthen our FinOps practice within a complex, high‑impact IT environment? Do you naturally take the lead, bring structure, and energize teams to turn cost‑ and efficiency opportunities into measurable outcomes? Can you combine deep technical expertise (cloud and on‑premises) with strong stakeholder management and hands‑on execution? If you’re a true FinOps professional who thrives on collaboration, challenges teams constructively, and gains energy from making visible progress, we would love to hear from you. 

We are expanding our FinOps team with a FinOps Practitioner, a visible, proactive professional who blends project management, technical and financial affinity, data engineering, and data‑driven decision‑making. In this role, you will support our major spending domains in identifying and realizing optimization opportunities across cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and on‑premises environments (VMware, storage, databases, containers, and more), while also contributing to FinOps data engineering and analytics initiatives. 

The FinOps Services capability is delivered by the sub area Consumer Services within the area Engineering Services. Besides FinOps, this sub area also delivers Container Platforms, Databases, Virtual Machines, and various other products across Rabobank’s three landing zones (Azure, AWS and on-premises). Guided by our vision, that all IT consumers in the bank take ownership of their IT usage and spend to unlock maximum business value, the FinOps team empowers the organization to make informed and accountable technology decisions. We enable this vision by providing cost transparency and efficiency by combining technology insight, financial stewardship, and engineering ways of working. We enable product teams, platform teams, and infrastructure domains to: 

• Understand where technology spend comes from (cloud and on-premises) 
• Translate cost drivers into actionable usage and optimization insights 
• Implement governance, guardrails, and standards 
• Build a continuous optimization culture (not a one-off savings exercise) 

We work closely with engineering, platform owners, procurement, finance, and senior stakeholders to ensure cost optimization is embedded into day-to-day delivery. Also, we work closely with the Tech Support Office within our division, responsible for the functional delivery of the FinOps practice. 

As FinOps Practitioner, you are the driver who turns optimization ambitions into execution. You lead cross-domain initiatives, create momentum, and ensure that agreed actions actually happen, in a continuous cycle.  

• Lead FinOps engagement with high‑spend consumers, driving cost transparency, accountability, and continuous optimization. 
• Analyze cloud and on‑premises cost drivers and translate insights into clear, actionable improvement plans with measurable targets. 
• Embed FinOps way of working by establishing governance, standards, guardrails, and a consistent optimization cadence (reviews, steering, reporting). 
• Enable teams to act on cost signals by connecting spend to architectural and operational choices, with a shift-left approach, and ensuring insights turn into outcomes. 
• Act as a strategic connector between engineering, finance, procurement, and leadership, aligning on forecasting, budgeting, value realization, and communicating clear narratives. 

We believe in the power of differences. It is precisely by combining people's differences that we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our team of Engineering Journey. 

 "You really get the space here to drive product innovation that impacts thousands of engineers daily, and you can feel the transformation you're creating," Product Manager. 

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: ‘At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions. 

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with 3+ years' experience in complex IT environments (platform, infrastructure, engineering, or technology transformation) 
• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) or FinOps Certified Professional, with strong knowledge of and experience in the framework and capabilities 
• Strong IT and engineering credibility, able to speak the language of platform, cloud, and infrastructure teams. 
• Proven project and delivery discipline, bringing structure, prioritization, and momentum across multiple teams or domains. 
• Data‑driven and analytical, skilled at creating and using dashboards (Power BI), identifying patterns, leveraging FOCUS data and turning insights into clear narratives. 
• Effective stakeholder management, engaging confidently from engineers to senior leadership and challenging constructively. 
• Demonstrated experience in cost optimization, efficiency, and operational excellence initiatives, with solid financial affinity and understanding of basic corporate finance procedures and structures (e.g., budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, depreciation, unit economics). 
• Technical expertise across cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP), on‑premises platforms (VMware, storage, databases), and containers/Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/OpenShift), with the ability to identify and help implement FinOps optimization opportunities. 
• Leadership and ownership mindset, able to zoom out for strategy and zoom in for execution while bringing others along. 
• Highly proactive, visible, and outcome‑driven, with strong energy and presence. 
• Resilient, collaborative, and adaptable, building trust, influencing across disciplines, and thriving in complex environments. 

To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a mandatory cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the role. Please pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers. together with your CV, these responses form the basis for our evaluation in this round. Submitting both a CV and answers to the three questions is the minimum requirement to be considered in the selection process. A cover letter is not mandatory but may be submitted optionally. 

You may draw on your work experience, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions: 

• How would you describe your recent experience working as a FinOps Practitioner, what optimizations have you realised, and how have you measured and presented your results? 
• What is your experience working in a complex enterprise IT environment, and what were your struggles, and how did you overcome them? 
• We are looking for a multi-talented professional, combining technical knowledge of the end-services, together with data engineering- and analytics skills, while also having financial affinity. How do you see your fit into these?  

Please submit these answers in the application section titled 'Add your cover letter (optional)' on the website portal. 

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter, ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl
• We will hold the interviews through a video call. If you are selected for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will reach out to you via SMS and email to schedule the interview. You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A screening is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the EU and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

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