Cloud FinOps Lead: Remote Cost & Governance

Gdit; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI-enabled professional growth tools

Leadership development and internal-mо

Competitive pay, benefits, and 401(k)

Job summary

GDIT seeks a Cloud FinOps Lead to drive cloud cost management, forecasting, and governance across VA Enterprise Cloud environments. You will lead cost models, dashboards, tagging strategies, and optimization initiatives, partnering with cloud engineers, finance, and cybersecurity teams.

You will engage VA leadership with cost reviews, forecasts, modernization roadmaps, and actionable optimization recommendations to advance FinOps maturity and financial outcomes.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Oversee VA’s enterprise cloud financial operations ensuring accurate forecasting, cost optimization, transparent reporting, and strong financial governance across all VA Enterprise Cloud environments.
• 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.
• Manage cloud cost reporting, unit economics analytics, automated financial feeds, showback/chargeback workflows, and monthly/quarterly performance packages for leadership.
• Monitor cost anomalies, refine allocation models, enhance optimization pipelines, and streamline financial operations across hosting and multi-cloud environments.
• Drive customer engagement with VA leadership and service line managers—delivering cost reviews, forecasting insights, modernization roadmaps, and optimization recommendations.

Skills

Continuous Improvement

Financial Management

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5 years of experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

VAEC

Job description

GDIT seeks a Cloud FinOps Lead to drive cloud cost management, forecasting, and governance across VA Enterprise Cloud environments. You will lead cost models, dashboards, tagging strategies, and optimization initiatives, partnering with cloud engineers, finance, and cybersecurity teams.

You will engage VA leadership with cost reviews, forecasts, modernization roadmaps, and actionable optimization recommendations to advance FinOps maturity and financial outcomes.