Cloud FinOps Analyst: Cost Optimization & Reporting

SteerBridge, Inc.; Vienna (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan with matching

Paid Time Off

Paid Federal Holidays

Job summary

SteerBridge, Inc. seeks a Cloud FinOps Analyst to manage cloud spend and financial governance for AWS and SaaS across federal programs and private sector work. This hybrid role is based in Vienna, VA, focusing on cost transparency, optimization, and automated reporting.

The ideal candidate has hands-on billing data experience, strong SQL, and scripting skills, and can articulate savings to engineers and finance teams, delivering measurable cost reductions.

Qualifications

• US citizenship is required for federal contract work.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Finance, Data Analytics, CS, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 1+ years in cloud financial management (FinOps) or related technical analytics.
• Strong SQL and spreadsheet skills; basic scripting in Python or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly cost and usage reports by program, environment, and service for leadership and finance.
• Build budgets and forecasts; reconcile AWS invoices against budgets and program allocations; explain variances.
• Automate reporting pipeline using AWS Cost and Usage Reports, Athena, dashboards, SQL; document methodology.
• Automate discovery of idle/oversized resources; quantify savings from rightsizing and cleanup.
• Analyze and recommend Savings Plans, Reserved Instances; track utilization and coverage.
• Present optimization opportunities with a business case and implementation path; collaborate to track savings.
• Track licenses and SaaS subscriptions; support renewals and seat reclamation.
• Define and document cost tagging standards; propose budgets and guardrails as IaC merge requests.

Skills

FinOps

SQL

Python

PowerShell

AWS billing data

Cloud operations

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS Cost Explorer

Cost Anomaly Detection

Athena

Power BI

Job description

SteerBridge, Inc. seeks a Cloud FinOps Analyst to manage cloud spend and financial governance for AWS and SaaS across federal programs and private sector work. This hybrid role is based in Vienna, VA, focusing on cost transparency, optimization, and automated reporting.

The ideal candidate has hands-on billing data experience, strong SQL, and scripting skills, and can articulate savings to engineers and finance teams, delivering measurable cost reductions.