Cloud FinOps Lead

FinOps Weekly; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Medical plan options with HSA

Dental and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Flexible work weeks where possible

Paid time off with extensive leave

Job summary

GDIT is seeking a Cloud FinOps Lead in Austin, TX with remote work options to oversee enterprise cloud financial operations across VA environments. You will drive cost governance, forecasting accuracy, and reporting transparency while collaborating with cloud engineers, finance, cybersecurity, and VA stakeholders.

The role emphasizes building cost models, dashboards, and allocation strategies, plus automation enhancements to mature FinOps maturity and support modernization efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• Experience leading cloud financial operations, FinOps, cloud cost management, or enterprise financial governance.
• Experience in multi-cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, and VAEC.
• 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.
• Experience developing financial performance plans, optimization dashboards, reporting packages, unit economics models, and corrective-action processes.
• Strong written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate across cloud engineering, finance, cybersecurity, hosting operations, and federal organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud financial management activities across VA enterprise cloud environments.
• Build and maintain cost models, dashboards, allocation methods, and financial reporting packages.
• Support forecasting, cost optimization, and financial governance for multi-cloud environments.
• Manage showback and chargeback workflows, unit economics analysis, and automated financial feeds.
• Monitor cost anomalies and identify corrective actions and optimization opportunities.
• Improve tagging standards, reporting structures, and cost allocation accuracy.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly performance materials for leadership.
• Deliver cost reviews, briefings, forecasting insights, and optimization recommendations to VA stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers, architects, financial analysts, cybersecurity teams, and service line managers.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, dashboard enhancement, and process refinement.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Cost management

Forecasting

Multi-cloud (Azure, AWS)

Finance governance

Stakeholder communication

Cloud cost reporting

ITSM familiarity

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Cloud cost reporting tools

Cost models & dashboards

Tagging and cost allocation tooling

Job description

About the Role

GDIT is seeking a Cloud FinOps Lead to support the Department of Veterans Affairs in Austin, Texas, with remote work available. This role sits within the Infrastructure Operations Support Services program and is responsible for overseeing enterprise cloud financial operations across VA Enterprise Cloud environments.

The position exists to improve cloud financial governance, forecast accuracy, cost optimization, and reporting transparency. The successful candidate will work across cloud engineering, architecture, finance, cybersecurity, hosting, and VA stakeholder groups to improve spend visibility, decision-making, and operational efficiency.

A key part of the role is leading cloud financial management processes, including cost models, dashboards, allocation strategies, showback/chargeback workflows, and performance reporting for leadership. The role also supports modernization efforts by improving automation, refining reporting structures, and strengthening FinOps maturity across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cloud financial management activities across VA enterprise cloud environments.
• Build and maintain cost models, dashboards, allocation methods, and financial reporting packages.
• Support forecasting, cost optimization, and financial governance for multi-cloud environments.
• Manage showback and chargeback workflows, unit economics analysis, and automated financial feeds.
• Monitor cost anomalies and identify corrective actions and optimization opportunities.
• Improve tagging standards, reporting structures, and cost allocation accuracy.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly performance materials for leadership.
• Deliver cost reviews, briefings, forecasting insights, and optimization recommendations to VA stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers, architects, financial analysts, cybersecurity teams, and service line managers.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, dashboard enhancement, and process refinement.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• Experience leading cloud financial operations, FinOps, cloud cost management, or enterprise financial governance.
• Experience in multi-cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, and VAEC.
• 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.
• Experience developing financial performance plans, optimization dashboards, reporting packages, unit economics models, and corrective-action processes.
• Strong written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate across cloud engineering, finance, cybersecurity, hosting operations, and federal organizations.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting the VA, federal agencies, or large regulated cloud environments.
• FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Professional certification.
• Cloud cost management certifications.
• ITIL v4 certification.
• 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.

FinOps / Cloud Financial Management

• Cloud financial management tools
• Cloud financial reporting tools
• Cost dashboards
• Allocation models
• Showback / chargeback workflows
• Unit economics models
• Forecasting outputs
• Metadata / ingestion pipelines

FinOps Responsibilities

• Oversee enterprise cloud financial operations and governance.
• Improve forecasting accuracy and cloud cost visibility.
• Maintain and refine cost models, allocation strategies, and tagging standards.
• Track and analyze cloud spend, usage, and cost anomalies.
• Support optimization initiatives and corrective-action processes.
• Produce financial reporting packages and leadership performance materials.
• Implement showback/chargeback workflows and unit economics analysis.
• Strengthen automation and reporting across hosting and multi-cloud environments.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Medical plan options, including some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible work weeks where possible.
• Paid time off options, including vacation, sick, personal time, holidays, parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave.
• New hires typically receive 15 days of paid leave per year and 10 paid holidays per year, prorated based on hire date.
• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12‑month period for eligible employees.
• Short‑and‑long‑term disability coverage.
• Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
• Personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance, where offered.

Useful Links

• Talent Community: https://gdit.com/tc

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to lead cloud financial operations for a major federal program supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs. It combines FinOps leadership, financial governance, forecasting, and optimization work across Azure, AWS, and VA Enterprise Cloud environments. The position also includes close collaboration with technical and business stakeholders and a clear focus on improving cost efficiency, accountability, and reporting maturity. For candidates with cloud financial management experience, it provides a broad enterprise scope and meaningful mission impact.