Cloud Program Cost FinOps Analyst (AWS)
About The Position
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a FinOps Analyst, supporting CMS Cloud Product Tools. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. The FinOps Analyst, will work with assigned customers on leveraging optimization strategies and tactics that will directly lead to more efficient workloads and lower spend. They will 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. This individual will also provide financial operations training, drive user experience improvements, adoption of processes and FinOps education. In this role you may also support the CMS Hybrid Cloud team in delivering highly communicative and financial reports that provide customers with their usage, monthly billing and funding utilization. Candidates must be able to communicate well with their customers throughout their Cloud journey. Successful candidates are eager to take the initiative on a very large Cloud resell program where optimization and attention to detail is crucial.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience
- 1+ years relevant experience in Cloud or Financial Operations, flexible for the right person
- FinOps Experience required
- experience w/AWS, Azure, or Oracle Cloud (OCI), or GCP Cost analysis using deep understanding of Cost usage reports
- Effective communication skills both orally and written
- Effective organizational skills
- Requires a Public Trust which will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting, at a designated facility. This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications
- Applicants shall have lived in the United States at least 3 out of the last 5 years prior to going through the public trust background investigation and submitting an application for a Federal ID Card.
- Work visa sponsorship will not be considered for this role.
- This position does not accept submissions from third‑party agencies or corp‑to‑corp entities. Only direct applicants are eligible for consideration.
Nice To Haves
- Experience that would be a discriminator: Oracle Cloud (OCI) or GCP
- 2+ years experience preferred
- FinOps Practitioner Certification
- FinOps experience with hands on keyboard capabilities to drive analysis and recommendations that directly lead to more efficient and lower cost infrastructure
- Understanding of Cloud Technologies
- Expert level experience with Microsoft Excel
- Analytic/ queries understanding for cloud billing
Responsibilities
- Assisting coworkers with collecting and reviewing financial data from various Cloud sources. (i.e. AWS Cost Explorer (and equivalents), Custom Tools, & Cloud native cost management tools)
- Creates, maintains, updates financial deliverables via JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft excel or other financial dashboards
- Analyzes customer cloud requirements and provide technical knowledge on cloud computing techniques and technologies of low- moderate complexity. Example: AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
- Research, evaluate, and deploy cloud computing optimization techniques. Example: Low Utilization of Cloud Resources
- Assists with the management of various master payer account(s) with 100+ linked accounts
- Extensive & timely customer service responses
- Participates in special projects as required
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- competitive pay
- paid time off
- variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- 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
- full flex work weeks where possible
- a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- an additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
- Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
