Cloud Computing Specialist - FinOps

Gilder Search Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gilder Search Group is seeking a Cloud FinOps Specialist IV in the United States. The role focuses on cloud financial management across multi-cloud environments, administering Cloudability, and driving cost governance to maximize value from cloud investments in a remote/hybrid setup.

You will develop dashboards, implement tagging, support forecasting, budgeting, and partner with technical and business teams to translate cost data into actionable recommendations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on FinOps or cloud financial management experience.
• Experience administering and managing Cloudability/Apptio including data ingestion and cost models.
• Experience analyzing CSP billing and usage data across multiple providers.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and optimize Cloudability for multi-cloud visibility and cost allocation.
• Develop dashboards and analyses to support cloud forecasting and budgeting.
• Establish tagging taxonomies, cost allocation standards, and governance practices.
• Analyze AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI usage to identify waste and optimization opportunities.
• Translate cloud cost data into actionable insights for stakeholders and executives.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to ensure accurate cost attribution.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost

Multi-cloud

Forecasting

Dashboards

Cost governance

Tools

Cloudability

Apptio

Job description

About the Opportunity

The Cloud Computing Specialist IV – FinOps plays a key role in helping an organization manage cloud investments strategically through accurate financial visibility, strong cost governance, and continuous optimization across a multi-cloud environment, in a remote and on-site work environment. This position combines Cloudability administration, cloud billing analysis, tagging and allocation governance, and financial reporting with direct collaboration across teams to identify inefficiencies and improve cloud consumption.

Success in this role means turning complex cloud cost data into clear, actionable insights that support accurate forecasting and budgeting, reduce unnecessary spend, strengthen accountability, and ensure cloud resources are aligned with business priorities and delivering measurable value.

What You Will Do in This Role

The Cloud Computing Specialist IV – Cloud FinOps will drive cloud financial management by administering Cloudability, analyzing multi-cloud costs, strengthening governance, and identifying optimization opportunities that improve financial visibility, reduce waste, and maximize the value of cloud investments.

Responsibilities include:

• Administer, configure, and continuously enhance the Cloudability platform to support accurate multi-cloud cost visibility, including billing data ingestion, normalization, cost structures, and allocation models.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and financial analyses that support cloud forecasting, budgeting, showback/chargeback, and executive decision-making.
• Establish and maintain enterprise tagging taxonomies, cost allocation standards, and governance practices to ensure cloud costs are consistently and accurately attributed.
• Analyze cloud consumption across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI to identify idle resources, waste, inefficiencies, and cost-optimization opportunities.
• Translate complex cloud cost and usage data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations that improve financial accountability and resource utilization.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to validate cost attribution, understand consumption patterns, and integrate cloud financial data into broader financial planning and analysis.
• Support forecasting and budgeting activities by analyzing historical spending, usage trends, and anticipated cloud consumption to improve financial planning and predictability.
• Monitor cloud financial data and reporting processes to identify discrepancies, data quality issues, and allocation gaps, and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Contribute to FinOps working groups and enterprise cloud financial governance initiatives, helping establish scalable processes, standards, and best practices.
• Identify and communicate opportunities to improve cloud financial management, reduce unnecessary spending, and ensure cloud investments deliver measurable business value.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

What You Will Bring

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on FinOps or cloud financial management experience in multi-cloud environments.
• Direct experience administering and managing Apptio/IBM Cloudability, including platform configuration, data ingestion, normalization, cost structures, and allocation models.
• Experience ingesting, normalizing, and analyzing cloud service provider (CSP) and reseller billing and usage data.
• Demonstrated experience developing cloud financial models, cost models, dashboards, reports, and forecasting analyses to support budgeting and financial planning.
• Strong understanding of cloud tagging, cost allocation, showback/chargeback, governance, and optimization practices.
• Hands‑on experience analyzing cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI to identify waste, idle resources, inefficiencies, and opportunities for cost optimization.
• Ability to translate complex cloud financial and usage data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner with cross‑functional teams to support accurate cost attribution, financial planning, and accountable cloud usage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise‑wide FinOps programs, cloud financial governance, or FinOps working groups.
• Familiarity with Technology Business Management (TBM) frameworks, Teknion, or related technology financial management practices.
• Experience implementing or maintaining enterprise tagging taxonomies, allocation methodologies, and cloud financial governance standards.
• Experience supporting large, complex, or highly regulated organizational environments.
• Experience working with federal government programs or other environments with structured compliance, security, or financial management requirements.
• Experience using cloud financial management and optimization tools beyond Cloudability.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner, FinOps Certified Professional, TBMA, or other relevant FinOps/TBM certification.

Important Note

This position is contingent upon contract award and funding. No employment relationship exists unless and until a formal written offer of employment is extended following contract award.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements

• Ability to obtain a security clearance.
• This work is normally completed in a remote environment.