Cloud FinOps Lead

gdit; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Flexible work weeks

Health benefits

Job summary

GDIT in Austin, TX is seeking a CLOUD FINOPS LEAD to oversee VA enterprise cloud financial operations, forecasting, and cost governance across multi-cloud environments. You will drive cost optimization, reporting, and budget alignment while collaborating with cloud engineers, finance teams and VA stakeholders.

Required 5+ years experience in FinOps or cloud cost management, strong analytical skills, and the ability to engage with leadership to deliver modernization Roadmaps and cost reviews.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience.
• Experience leading cloud FinOps and cloud cost management.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments and governance frameworks.
• Strong analytical and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate across cloud engineering, finance, cybersecurity and hosting ops.

Responsibilities

• Oversee VA enterprise cloud financial operations with forecasting and governance.
• Lead cost reporting, dashboards, tagging strategies, and optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineers, finance, cybersecurity and VA stakeholders.
• Deliver cost reviews, forecasts, modernization roadmaps, and optimization recommendations.

Skills

Continuous Improvement

Financial Management

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Education

Bachelor7s degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure

AWS

VAEC

Job description

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: MBI (T2)

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Continuous Improvement, Financial Management, Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a CLOUD FINOPS LEAD supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects, build your skills, and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a CLOUD FINOPS LEAD supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs in Austin, Texas you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

How You Will Make an Impact

Join GDIT to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through the Infrastructure Operations Support Services program. As the FinOps Lead, you will oversee VA’s enterprise cloud financial operations ensuring accurate forecasting, cost optimization, transparent reporting, and strong financial governance across all VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environments.

In this role, you will lead cloud financial management processes, maintain cost models and dashboards, strengthen tagging and allocation strategies, identify optimization opportunities, and ensure VA meets key FinOps performance standards. You will collaborate with cloud engineers, architects, financial analysts, cybersecurity teams, and VA stakeholders to drive financial efficiency, improve cloud spend visibility, and support data-driven decision making.

You will manage cloud cost reporting, unit economics analytics, automated financial feeds, showback/chargeback workflows, and monthly/quarterly performance packages for leadership. You will monitor cost anomalies, refine allocation models, enhance optimization pipelines, and streamline financial operations across hosting and multi-cloud environments.

You will also lead customer engagement with VA leadership and service line managers—delivering cost reviews, briefings, forecasting insights, modernization roadmaps, and optimization recommendations that strengthen FinOps maturity and mission-aligned financial outcomes.

Finally, you will drive continuous improvement by refining tagging standards, enhancing dashboards, modernizing reporting structures, embedding automation, addressing inefficiencies, and maturing VA’s enterprise cloud financial governance.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5 years of experience
• Experience leading cloud financial operations (FinOps), cloud cost management, or enterprise financial governance
• Demonstrated expertise with multi‑cloud environments (Azure, AWS, VAEC) and cloud financial management tools
• Strong understanding of ITSM, cloud service delivery, financial analytics, forecasting, and governance frameworks
• Ability to evaluate cloud cost reports, usage models, allocation data, tagging strategies, and forecasting outputs for accuracy and completeness
• Experience developing financial performance plans, optimization dashboards, reporting packages, unit economics models, and corrective‑action processes
• Excellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across cloud engineering, finance, cybersecurity, hosting operations, and federal organizations

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting VA, federal agencies, or large regulated cloud environments
• FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Professional certification, cloud cost‑management certifications, ITILv4, Six Sigma, or similar credentials
• Familiarity with cloud optimization principles, cost governance frameworks, budgeting processes, tagging standards, and VA Handbook 6500 financial alignment requirements
• Experience with cost dashboards, automation frameworks, metadata/ingestion pipelines, and cloud financial reporting tools

Security Clearance

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Location:

Austin, TX (hybrid)

No visa sponsorship is available for this position

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• AI‑enabled professional growth tools
• Leadership development and internal mobility programs
• Competitive pay, benefits, and 401(k) match
• Mission‑focused culture supporting Veterans
• Opportunities to modernize VA’s cloud financial ecosystem and strengthen cost efficiency, accountability, and business value across nationwide operations

The likely salary range for this position is $116,450 - $157,550. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA TX Austin

Total Rewards at GDIT:

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans