Cloud Cost Analyst / Cloud FinOps

General Dynamics Information Technology

3d • Remote

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Analyst supporting The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Analyst you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Analyst joining our team to work with the customer on optimizing their Cloud spend, including purchasing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. You will also be the billing expert available for training customers on understanding Cloud usage and patterns and champion and advocate for the use of our automated tools. Additionally, you will provide financial operations training and drive user experience improvements, adoption of processes, and FinOps education. This role is fully remote!

Requirements

• Bachelor’s and 5+ years of related experience
• 5+ years of experience with Cloud Systems (AWS).
• 3+ years of Cloud Financial/Economics experience
• 5+ years of experience working with senior business and product owners to develop business cases, perform value and TCO analysis, and identify and implement cost optimization techniques for cloud infrastructure and applications
• Experience in developing and presenting reports that quantify the cost benefits of different design options for running applications in cloud
• Experience using AWS native optimization tools, such as AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and/or Amazon QuickSight
• Must be able to obtain NIH Public Trust

Nice To Haves

• Strong organizational skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Must be able to effectively communicate and be able to convey cloud technologies and solutions to customer personnel.
• Knowledge of FinOps general practices.
• FinOps certification (any) is a plus.
• Experience in building and operating financial control and analysis systems such as cloud cost analysis and chargeback models.
• Experience working with stakeholders and development teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects and clients to establish cloud economics tools and platforms based on Federal and Industry Cloud FinOps best practices.
• Develop agency and program-specific framework for FinOps principals, personas (roles), domains (areas of focus) and roadmap for Cloud FinOps to provide financial recommendations for cloud usage.
• Create and present financial models and reports.
• Continuously monitor cost of services and perform Total Cost of Ownership studies.
• Lead technical and financial analysis to help Business and Product Owners determine the impact of cloud hosting by identifying cost savings design options and usage trends that impact projected spending.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant AWS optimization techniques, best practices, policies, and procedures to share in meetings with NIAID leadership, product teams, and infrastructure engineers.
• Help develop the billing and analytics engines of the centralized decision-making portal.
• Create and present financial models and reports

Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees