Cloud FinOps Engineer - Cost Governance & Optimization

Lumiture; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship from engineers

Growth opportunities

Learning culture

Job summary

Lumiture is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to help build a modern FinOps model for a government-facing context. You’ll collaborate with IT, Finance, and Business Units to strengthen governance, tooling, and cost visibility across cloud usage.

The role combines cloud engineering, cost governance, and operational improvement, turning usage data into measurable business value for public sector initiatives. You will influence roadmaps and partner with diverse teams to optimize cloud spend while

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud financial management, FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud governance, cost allocation, usage optimization, and operational accountability.
• Experience working across cross-functional stakeholders, especially in environments involving technology, finance, and business operations.

Responsibilities

• Help establish and operationalize a FinOps governance framework, including policies, standards, procedures, decision‑making structures, and accountability models for cloud financial management.
• Partner with stakeholders across IT, Finance, and Business Units to assess current practices, identify gaps, and improve cloud cost management processes.
• Support the design of a FinOps organizational structure, including roles, responsibilities, RACI models, working groups, communication channels, and reporting mechanisms.
• Assess, recommend, and help implement FinOps tooling that improves cost visibility, control, reporting, and integration with existing financial and IT systems.
• Develop and enhance cost visibility and allocation capabilities, including tagging strategy support, showback/chargeback approaches, and cost reporting dashboards for stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Identify cloud waste and optimization opportunities by analyzing idle resources, underutilized services, orphaned infrastructure, storage usage, and provisioned capacity.
• Implement and support rightsizing and cost optimization strategies, including automated recommendations, storage tier optimization, discount strategy support, and anomaly detection.
• Contribute to FinOps roadmap development by assessing maturity, identifying capability gaps, prioritizing initiatives, and defining milestones, risks, resource needs, and success metrics.
• Support change management and adoption efforts through stakeholder engagement, training, workshops, KPI development, and collaboration across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Help identify and support automation and AI pilot opportunities that improve operational efficiency, service delivery, and decision‑making.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Cost optimization

Governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Public sector experience

Job description

Lumiture is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to help build a modern FinOps model for a government-facing context. You’ll collaborate with IT, Finance, and Business Units to strengthen governance, tooling, and cost visibility across cloud usage.

The role combines cloud engineering, cost governance, and operational improvement, turning usage data into measurable business value for public sector initiatives. You will influence roadmaps and partner with diverse teams to optimize cloud spend while