FinOps Specialist (REMOTE)
Koniag Government Services · Washington, DC · 1 mo ago
OTHRFull-time
We need to output only HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. No job title heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, accommodations, legal, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Keep substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Position: FinOps Specialist (remote)
- Company: Koniag Data Solutions, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company.
- This position may be filled prior to deadline; encourage apply soon.
- Requires ability to obtain a Public Trust.
- Benefits: medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement.
- Role description: supporting cloud-financial management operations for Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a US Dept of HHS component.
- Ideal candidate: detail-oriented financial and technical professional with strong analytical skills, practical understanding of cloud pricing models, commitment to financial accountability, transparency, cost optimization.
- Principal Responsibilities (list):
- 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.
- 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 that required supporting documentation is available, and tracking written Contracting Officer Representative (COR) pre-approval status before costs are incurred. This 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 the 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.
- Education And Experience (looks like weird copy: they pasted AI stuff incorrectly? Actually after "Education And Experience" they have a block about AI frameworks etc. That seems misplaced; maybe it's from another job. But we must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. However that block seems unrelated to FinOps role; but it's in the posting. Should we include it? It's under "Education And Experience" heading but content is about AI frameworks. That seems erroneous but we must keep it as is? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should keep that block as part of the posting, even if seems mismatched. However later they have "Required Bachelor's degree..." etc. So there are two sections: first a weird AI block, then required qualifications.
We need to decide how to structure. The posting includes:
Education And Experience
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.
Support the creation and maintenance of AI governance artifacts, including model documentation, performance baselines, risk assessments, and lifecycle management.
Mentor engineering teams and contribute to technical decision‑making, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture and long‑term AI strategy.
Then Required 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.
Preferred 5+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial operations, or IT financial management.
Experience supporting federal government or public-sector cloud environments.
Required Skills And Competencies
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.
Security Requirement
Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.
Desired Skills And Competencies
FinOps Certified Practitioner (FinOps Foundation) or equivalent certification.
Experience with cloud-management platforms such as CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Spot.io, or similar tools.
Knowledge of IaC concepts and how cloud resources are provisioned and managed, such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Experience working in a federal government IT or cloud environment.
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, especially Scrum.
Experience with data-visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), or equivalent cloud-provider certification.
Understanding of ITIL or IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks as they relate to cloud-financial operations.
Experience supporting ODC documentation, COR pre-approval tracking, or federal contract cost-control processes.
Then EEO boilerplate etc.
We need to map to sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have no explicit Pay or Schedule info. So we should not include those sections.
We have Benefits: yes.
We have About the role: could be the introductory paragraphs describing position, remote, Public Trust, supporting ACF, etc.
We have Responsibilities: the list of Principal Responsibilities.
We have Requirements: maybe the Required Bachelor's degree etc. plus maybe the AI block? But the AI block is under Education And Experience heading but seems unrelated. However we must keep it. Could treat that as part of Requirements or Qualifications? The heading "Education And Experience" is present; we could map that to "Qualifications" maybe. But we also have "Required Skills And Competencies" and "Desired Skills And Competencies". Those could go under Skills.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft sections:
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. No job title heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, accommodations, legal, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Keep substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Position: FinOps Specialist (remote)
- Company: Koniag Data Solutions, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company.
- This position may be filled prior to deadline; encourage apply soon.
- Requires ability to obtain a Public Trust.
- Benefits: medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement.
- Role description: supporting cloud-financial management operations for Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a US Dept of HHS component.
- Ideal candidate: detail-oriented financial and technical professional with strong analytical skills, practical understanding of cloud pricing models, commitment to financial accountability, transparency, cost optimization.
- Principal Responsibilities (list):
- 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.
- 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 that required supporting documentation is available, and tracking written Contracting Officer Representative (COR) pre-approval status before costs are incurred. This 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 the 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.
- Education And Experience (looks like weird copy: they pasted AI stuff incorrectly? Actually after "Education And Experience" they have a block about AI frameworks etc. That seems misplaced; maybe it's from another job. But we must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. However that block seems unrelated to FinOps role; but it's in the posting. Should we include it? It's under "Education And Experience" heading but content is about AI frameworks. That seems erroneous but we must keep it as is? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should keep that block as part of the posting, even if seems mismatched. However later they have "Required Bachelor's degree..." etc. So there are two sections: first a weird AI block, then required qualifications.
We need to decide how to structure. The posting includes:
Education And Experience
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.
Support the creation and maintenance of AI governance artifacts, including model documentation, performance baselines, risk assessments, and lifecycle management.
Mentor engineering teams and contribute to technical decision‑making, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture and long‑term AI strategy.
Then Required 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.
Preferred 5+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial operations, or IT financial management.
Experience supporting federal government or public-sector cloud environments.
Required Skills And Competencies
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.
Security Requirement
Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.
Desired Skills And Competencies
FinOps Certified Practitioner (FinOps Foundation) or equivalent certification.
Experience with cloud-management platforms such as CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Spot.io, or similar tools.
Knowledge of IaC concepts and how cloud resources are provisioned and managed, such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Experience working in a federal government IT or cloud environment.
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, especially Scrum.
Experience with data-visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), or equivalent cloud-provider certification.
Understanding of ITIL or IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks as they relate to cloud-financial operations.
Experience supporting ODC documentation, COR pre-approval tracking, or federal contract cost-control processes.
Then EEO boilerplate etc.
We need to map to sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have no explicit Pay or Schedule info. So we should not include those sections.
We have Benefits: yes.
We have About the role: could be the introductory paragraphs describing position, remote, Public Trust, supporting ACF, etc.
We have Responsibilities: the list of Principal Responsibilities.
We have Requirements: maybe the Required Bachelor's degree etc. plus maybe the AI block? But the AI block is under Education And Experience heading but seems unrelated. However we must keep it. Could treat that as part of Requirements or Qualifications? The heading "Education And Experience" is present; we could map that to "Qualifications" maybe. But we also have "Required Skills And Competencies" and "Desired Skills And Competencies". Those could go under Skills.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft sections:
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. The FinOps Specialist will support cloud-financial management operations for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services component. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented financial and technical professional with strong analytical skills, a practical understanding of cloud pricing models, and a commitment to financial accountability, transparency, and cost optimization. The role performs a key technical role supporting ACF cloud modernization, cybersecurity, operational resilience, and mission delivery.
That captures the intro.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.
- 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 that required supporting documentation is available, and tracking written Contracting Officer Representative (COR) pre-approval status before costs are incurred. This 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 the 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.
Qualifications
Evaluate and implement state‑of‑the‑art AI frameworks and tooling, enabling automation, anomaly detection,