FinOps Engineer

State of Oklahoma • Oklahoma City, OK

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The FinOps Engineer is responsible for optimizing IT and multi‑cloud financial operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP by serving as the primary administrator and subject matter expert for IBM Cloudability, managing cost allocation, reporting, dashboards, and ongoing optimization initiatives. The engineer monitors cloud and IT expenditures, evaluates trends, identifies variances and savings opportunities, and supports budgeting, forecasting, purchase reviews, and long‑range planning. This role prepares executive‑level financial reports and dashboards, supports vendor billing and contract management, ensures compliance with financial and procurement policies, and partners with IT, Finance, Procurement, cloud platform teams, and external providers to improve financial visibility, strengthen governance, and advance FinOps maturity across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field
• 2 or more years of professional experience in financial analysis, preferably within IT, technology, or cloud‑focused environments.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and report on cloud consumption and associated costs across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Serve as the primary administrator and subject‑matter expert for IBM Cloudability, managing dashboards, cost allocation rules, automation policies, workflows, and optimization recommendations.
• Build forecasting models to predict cloud usage and financial impact, enhancing budget accuracy and long‑term planning.
• Identify cost anomalies, unused resources, waste patterns, and rightsizing opportunities using Cloudability analytics.
• Create and maintain KPIs, benchmarks, and trends related to cloud financial health.
• Develop executive‑level dashboards and operational reports that clearly articulate spending patterns, optimization opportunities, and business impacts.
• Deliver recurring and ad hoc analyses to agency leadership and the CIO’s office to support strategic financial decisions.
• Improve visibility into compute usage, license utilization, and multi‑cloud cost drivers through well‑designed reporting solutions.
• Ensure reports follow financial governance standards and cost‑management best practices.
• Partner with IT, Finance, and Procurement to align cloud expenditures with budgets, contracts, and procurement policies.
• Support governance initiatives by standardizing cost allocation methods, tagging requirements, and optimization playbooks across all cloud‑hosting groups.
• Promote FinOps best practices and provide cloud‑cost education to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cloud platform engineering teams to ensure tagging hygiene, resource rationalization, and savings plan/RI optimization.
• Contribute to enterprise cloud cost‑management maturity through improved data quality, automation, and reporting consistency.
• Drive continuous improvement of cloud financial processes, including forecasting workflows, budgeting cycles, and optimization programs.
• Support statewide initiatives to enhance cloud financial visibility, reporting, and governance.

Benefits

• Generous leave including 15 days of vacation, 15 days of sick leave and 11 paid holidays annually.
• A comprehensive Benefit Package with a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level