FinOps Specialist (REMOTE)

About the role

FinOps Specialist position at Koniag Data Solutions, LLC (a Koniag Government Services company) supporting cloud‑financial management for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The role is remote and requires the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Perform ongoing cloud‑cost analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP to identify spending trends, anomalies, optimization opportunities, and risks.
• Develop, maintain, and execute chargeback and showback models that accurately allocate cloud costs to appropriate business units, programs, systems, or cost centers.
• Build, maintain, and deliver biweekly dashboards and reports reflecting cloud‑spend trends, budget variances, utilization, forecast changes, material issues, and risks.
• Monitor cloud budgets, forecast future spend, and provide timely reporting and actionable variance analysis to leadership, program management, and finance stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering, cloud architecture, and DevOps teams to identify and implement cost‑saving recommendations, including right‑sizing, savings plans, reserved instances, resource scheduling, storage optimization, and tagging improvements.
• Support the development and enforcement of cloud cost‑governance policies, tagging standards, allocation rules, budget controls, and financial‑management best practices.
• Partner with procurement and vendor‑management teams to evaluate cloud pricing agreements, enterprise discount programs, consumption commitments, and contract terms.
• Support project budget adherence by identifying emerging cost pressures, reporting risks and variances, and coordinating recommended corrective actions with program stakeholders.
• Support documentation, tracking, and validation of Other Direct Cost (ODC) expenditures by maintaining accurate cost records, confirming required supporting documentation, and tracking written COR pre‑approval status before costs are incurred (role does not approve ODC expenditures).
• Assess and document whether proposed ODC expenditures appear fair and reasonable based on available pricing, estimates, or comparable cost information; elevate findings to appropriate program, contracts, procurement, or COR authority for review and disposition.
• Participate in Agile or program‑management ceremonies, including sprint planning and backlog refinement, as they relate to FinOps priorities and cost‑optimization activities.
• Maintain current documentation of chargeback methodologies, cost‑allocation models, dashboard logic, forecasts, optimization findings, ODC support records, and governance decisions.
• Serve as a subject‑matter resource on FinOps principles, helping technical, financial, and program stakeholders understand cloud‑financial‑management practices and decision tradeoffs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud financial management, FinOps, IT finance, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud‑cost‑management tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing, CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing chargeback or showback models in a multi‑team or enterprise environment.