FinOps Specialist (REMOTE)

About the role

Koniag Data Solutions, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a FinOps Specialist to support KDS and our government customer. The position is remote. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Perform ongoing cloud-cost analysis across one or more cloud service providers, including 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.
• Serve as a subject matter resource on FinOps principles, helping technical, financial, and program stakeholders understand cloud-financial-management practices and decision tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• Evaluate and implement state-of-the-art AI frameworks and tooling, enabling automation, anomaly detection, threat modeling, decision support, and large-scale data analysis.
• Optimize AI models for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across on-prem and cloud environments (Azure/AWS).
• Establish and enforce AI development best practices, including MLOps, version control, reproducibility, testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment.
• Conduct research and prototype emerging AI techniques, transforming complex technical concepts into actionable engineering solutions.
• Maintain current documentation of chargeback methodologies, cost-allocation models, dashboard logic, forecasts, optimization findings, ODC support records, and governance decisions.

Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud-pricing models, billing structures, and cost-optimization strategies across one or more major cloud providers.
• Proficiency in developing and managing chargeback and showback frameworks for accurate cost allocation across business units, systems, programs, or cost centers.
• Experience building financial reports, dashboards, and visualizations that communicate cloud spend, trends, variances, risks, and forecasts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to perform cloud-cost forecasting and variance analysis, identify deviations from budget, and recommend corrective actions.
• Experience delivering regular recurring reporting, including biweekly financial and operational dashboards.
• Familiarity with cloud resource-tagging strategies and governance policies that support cost attribution, accountability, and data quality.
• Experience documenting, tracking, or validating costs, approvals, and supporting records in a program, contract, procurement, or financial-control environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to present financial data clearly to executive, finance, program, and technical audiences.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment with engineering, finance, procurement, contracts, and program-management stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets for financial modeling, data analysis, and reconciliation.

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.

Pay

Competitive compensation.

Schedule

Remote.