• Own cost efficiency and financial accountability across Azure. • Build a clean Azure cost baseline by subscription, application, and owner. • Identify structural cost drivers and recurring inefficiencies. • Lead Azure Reservation and Savings Plan strategies, including Hybrid Benefit usage. • Drive cleanup of idle VMs, disks, snapshots, and runaway log/telemetry costs. • Improve tagging and subscription hygiene; support management group and policy enforcement. • Establish lightweight guardrails that prevent obvious waste without slowing teams down. • Produce rolling forecasts and budget views tied to real usage patterns. • Track a small set of KPIs (coverage, utilization, waste reduction, realized savings). • Work directly with platform and product teams to align cost decisions with technical realities.