FinOps cloud Specialist

Job Title: Cloud FinOps Specialist
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Remote (U.S.-based)
Eligibility: U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder only
Clearance: Must be able to obtain Public Trust
Position Overview:
Seeking an experienced Cloud FinOps Specialist to manage financial governance, cost visibility, budgeting, forecasting, and optimization across GCP and OCI in a regulated federal environment.
Key Responsibilities
Manage FinOps and financial governance across GCP and OCI.
Monitor cloud spending, budgets, forecasts, burn-down, and cost trends.
Build cost dashboards and leadership reports using GCP/OCI and third-party tools.
Identify savings through rightsizing, committed-use discounts, commitments, and architecture optimization.
Establish and enforce cloud tagging and cost-allocation standards.
Develop unit economics and cost-efficiency KPIs.
Configure budgets, alerts, and anomaly detection to prevent overspending.
Partner with Finance, Engineering, Procurement, and Cloud Operations teams.
Provide technical recommendations and financial strategies for cloud environments.
Ensure FinOps practices align with FedRAMP HIGH and NIST 800-53 requirements.
Must-Have Skills
5–7+ years of FinOps, cloud financial management, or cloud operations.
3+ years of technical team leadership.
Strong hands-on experience with GCP and OCI cost management.
GCP billing, cost allocation, Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) and resource hierarchy.
OCI Cost Analysis, Budgets, Compartments, Tags, Universal Credits, and Annual Commitments.
Experience optimizing BigQuery, Compute, Storage, Exadata, and Autonomous Database costs.
Strong knowledge of cloud tagging, consumption-based billing, forecasting, and multi-cloud governance.
Experience with BigQuery, Looker/Looker Studio, OCI Cost Analysis, Cloudability/Apptio, and Kubecost.
Strong data analysis and reporting skills.
Experience in FedRAMP HIGH / NIST 800-53 regulated environments.
Ability to develop technical standards and provide technical direction.
Preferred
FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar certification.
GCP, OCI, AWS, or Azure certification.
Federal Government/regulated enterprise experience.
Active Public Trust (High-Risk) clearance.
Experience with VM images and technical documentation/how-to guides.
Top Skills:
FinOps | GCP | OCI | Cloud Cost Optimization | Budgeting & Forecasting | Cost Allocation | Tagging | CUDs | OCI Cost Analysis | BigQuery | Looker | Cloudability/Apptio | Kubecost | FedRAMP HIGH | NIST 800-53 | Multi-Cloud Governance | Technical Leadership
Thanks
ARNAV.ACHARYA@AVILAMB.COM

Work arrangement
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