Cloud FinOps Lead
About The Position
The Cloud FinOps Lead supports the Department of Veterans Affairs through GDIT’s Infrastructure Operations Support Services program. The role oversees enterprise cloud financial operations across VA Enterprise Cloud environments, ensuring accurate forecasting, cost optimization, transparent reporting, and strong financial governance. The lead manages financial processes, cost models and dashboards, tagging and allocation strategies, cost reporting, unit economics analytics, automated financial feeds, showback/chargeback workflows, and monthly and quarterly leadership performance packages. The role monitors cost anomalies, improves allocation models and optimization pipelines, and streamlines financial operations across hosting and multi-cloud environments. It also leads customer engagement with VA leadership and service line managers by delivering cost reviews, briefings, forecasting insights, modernization roadmaps, and optimization recommendations. The position drives continuous improvement through stronger tagging standards, dashboards, reporting structures, automation, and enterprise cloud financial governance. The position is based in Austin, Texas, or may be performed remotely. Travel is less than 10%, with 40 scheduled weekly hours.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5 years of experience.
- At least 5 years of related experience.
- Experience leading cloud financial operations (FinOps), cloud cost management, or enterprise financial governance.
- Demonstrated expertise with multi-cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, and VAEC, and cloud financial management tools.
- Strong understanding of ITSM, cloud service delivery, financial analytics, forecasting, and governance frameworks.
- Ability to evaluate cloud cost reports, usage models, allocation data, tagging strategies, and forecasting outputs for accuracy and completeness.
- Experience developing financial performance plans, optimization dashboards, reporting packages, unit economics models, and corrective-action processes.
- Excellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate across cloud engineering, finance, cybersecurity, hosting operations, and federal organizations.
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting VA, federal agencies, or large regulated cloud environments.
- FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Professional certification, cloud cost-management certifications, ITILv4, Six Sigma, or similar credentials.
- Familiarity with cloud optimization principles, cost governance frameworks, budgeting processes, tagging standards, and VA Handbook 6500 financial alignment requirements.
- Experience with cost dashboards, automation frameworks, metadata/ingestion pipelines, and cloud financial reporting tools.
Responsibilities
- Oversee VA enterprise cloud financial operations, including forecasting, cost optimization, reporting, and financial governance across VAEC environments.
- Lead cloud financial management processes and maintain cost models and dashboards.
- Strengthen cloud tagging and allocation strategies and identify optimization opportunities.
- Ensure VA meets key FinOps performance standards.
- Collaborate with cloud engineers, architects, financial analysts, cybersecurity teams, and VA stakeholders to improve financial efficiency, cloud-spend visibility, and data-driven decision making.
- Manage cloud cost reporting, unit economics analytics, automated financial feeds, showback/chargeback workflows, and monthly and quarterly performance packages for leadership.
- Monitor cost anomalies, refine allocation models, enhance optimization pipelines, and streamline financial operations across hosting and multi-cloud environments.
- Lead customer engagement with VA leadership and service line managers, delivering cost reviews, briefings, forecasting insights, modernization roadmaps, and optimization recommendations.
- Drive continuous improvement by refining tagging standards, enhancing dashboards, modernizing reporting structures, embedding automation, addressing inefficiencies, and maturing enterprise cloud financial governance.
Benefits
- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick and personal time
- Paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Military leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, prorated based on hire date
- Typically 10 paid holidays per year, prorated based on hire date
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment coverage
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
