FinOps Practitioner Principal

LED FastStart • Louisiana, MO

17h • $97,750 - $132,250 • Remote

About The Position

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a FinOps Practitioner Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. We are seeking a FinOps Practitioner Principal to work across our client organization to deliver solutions aligned with the business capability delivery and with a focus on providing optimized IT at best value. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of cloud service technologies and will integrate with a team that supports opportunities for optimization of cloud services.
The FinOps Practitioner Principal will be part of the Technology Shared Services (TSS) team with a base of operations in Bossier City, LA. TSS provides a variety of services to the programs supported by GDIT. The candidate will deliver FinOps to GDIT program customers. This involves coordinating meetings, identifying and presenting recommendations, building and maintaining dashboards, sending reports, and collaborating with FinOps personas to ultimately achieve maximum IT value. This role requires a proactive and self-motivated individual who can take ownership of FinOps initiatives, contribute to strategic discussions, and drive measurable cost efficiencies across cloud environments.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a FinOps Practitioner Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the missions of our customers. You will play a crucial role in the following core responsibilities that include, but are not limited to:

Requirements

• Technical Training and/or Certification(s) with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or Google -or- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Science, Information Technology, or other relevant field
• 5+ years working with cloud services (AWS, et al.)
• Experience providing stakeholder or customer support in a technical or financial capacity
• 1+ year performing FinOps practices, including cost analysis, optimization, or cloud financial reporting
• Solid understanding of Information Technology (IT) service management and how FinOps integrates with IT operations, their billing models, and cost management tools
• Foundational understanding of cloud services and proficiency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), with specific knowledge of AWS cloud billing tools
• Familiar with AWS service offerings to include resources supporting networks, compute, storage, databases, containers, etc.
• Experience with or exposure to common cloud billing processes and operations practices, to include product pricing models, subscriptions, usage, and invoicing
• Able to lead conversations with distributed teams including technical, finance, executive, business partners, and customers
• Ability to lead a small team and work solo to perform required tasks
• Experience developing business cases, performing TCO/value analysis, and identifying cost optimization opportunities.
• Experience delivering reports and presentations that articulate cloud cost impacts and design tradeoffs.
• Experience with AWS native tools such as Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and/or Amazon QuickSight.
• Experienced user of common office applications such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams, and SharePoint
• Working knowledge of IT service management tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, or BMC Remedy
• Professional with strong communication skills who works well within a team
• Must possess analytical skills to solve simple to complex problems
• Security Clearance Level: Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Performing cloud cost analysis and developing recommendations aligned with FinOps best practices
• Developing and maintaining showback capabilities by project, service, or line of business
• Serving as the FinOps SME in project discussions to ensure cost effective architecture and design
• Supporting cloud budgeting, forecasting, modeling, and financial reporting
• Collaborating with architects and program teams to implement FinOps tools and platforms using federal and industry best practices
• Developing program specific FinOps frameworks including principles, personas, domains, and roadmaps
• Monitoring cloud costs and conducting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses
• Leading technical and financial assessments to identify cost saving design options and usage patterns
• Championing FinOps practices and supporting capability development for stakeholders across the organization
• Supporting the development of centralized financial decision making portals
• Ensuring cloud investments deliver maximum business value through effective cost management strategies
• Providing cost estimation, optimization insights, and ensuring billing accuracy

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