FinOps Lead (Hybrid - Charlotte, NC & St. Louis, MO)

Peek IT Services; Charlotte, St. Louis (NC, MO); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Peek IT Services is seeking a FinOps professional to own cloud cost forecasting and spend tracking across AWS, Azure, and GCP for a 12+ month hybrid contract based in Charlotte, NC and St. Louis, MO.

You will develop executive-ready reporting and defend assumptions with senior stakeholders to drive optimization and savings. Responsibilities include building forecasts, tracking variances, maintaining cost visibility, and coordinating with cloud build and FinOps teams to ensure reconciled

Qualifications

• Hands-on FinOps or cloud financial mgmt in a multi-cloud.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization across providers.
• Strong forecasting and variance analysis skills.
• Ability to present to senior technical and finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain monthly and quarterly cloud spend forecasts for all in-scope AWS, Azure and GCP accounts.
• Track actual spend against forecast and budget, identify variances early, and explain drivers in business terms.
• Maintain cost visibility at the account, service, environment and application level, including tagging and allocation hygiene.
• Flag anomalies and unexpected growth, and drive them to resolution with owning teams.
• Partner with the cloud build team so planned workload changes are reflected in the forecast before they hit the bill.
• Coordinate with the SDIT FinOps team to keep reporting reconciled and align forecasts with budgeting cycles.
• Produce recurring and ad hoc summaries for executive consumption, and present findings to senior stakeholders.
• Identify and quantify savings across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, rightsizing, and licensing positioning, then track realized savings.

Skills

FinOps

Multi-cloud mgmt

Forecasting & budgeting

Stakeholder comms

Cost optimization

Tools

AWS Cost Explorer

CUR

Azure Cost Management

GCP Billing

BigQuery exports

Job description

You will own cloud cost forecasting and spend tracking across a multi-cloud AWS, Azure and GCP estate on a 12+ month hybrid contract based in Charlotte, NC and St. Louis, MO. The work is highly visible: you will produce executive-ready reporting, defend your assumptions in front of senior stakeholders, and drive real optimization across commitments, rightsizing and licensing. Compensation: this is a W2 contract engagement. Compensation is the hourly rate stated above, plus any overtime required by law. No health, dental, vision, retirement or paid leave benefits are offered at this time, beyond what applicable law requires.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain monthly and quarterly cloud spend forecasts for all in-scope AWS, Azure and GCP accounts
• Track actual spend against forecast and budget, identify variances early, and explain the drivers in business terms
• Maintain cost visibility at the account, service, environment and application level, including tagging and allocation hygiene
• Flag anomalies and unexpected growth, and drive them to resolution with the owning teams
• Partner with the cloud build team so planned workload changes, migrations and new infrastructure are reflected in the forecast before they hit the bill
• Coordinate with the SDIT FinOps team to keep reporting reconciled and avoid conflicting numbers, and align forecasts with business planning budget cycles and funding decisions
• Produce recurring and ad hoc summaries ready for executive consumption, and present findings directly to senior stakeholders
• Identify and quantify savings across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, CUDs, rightsizing, storage tiering, idle resources and license positioning, then track realized savings

Requirements

• Demonstrated hands-on FinOps or cloud financial management experience, ideally in a multi-cloud environment
• Working knowledge of AWS Cost Explorer and CUR
• Working knowledge of Azure Cost Management
• Working knowledge of GCP Billing and BigQuery exports
• Strong forecasting and variance analysis skills, with the judgment to distinguish a real trend from noise
• Credibility with senior technical and finance stakeholders
• Excellent written communication, with a track record of producing material used at the executive level
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and incomplete data, and able to ramp quickly given the urgency of the need

Nice to have

• Experience with a third-party platform such as Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth or Flexera
• Experience with unit economics and showback/chargeback models
• Familiarity with enterprise IT financial structures where central IT spend is tracked separately from business unit spend