GCP FinOps and Commitment Management Lead

nOps; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

nOps is seeking a GCP FinOps & Commitment Expert to own and optimize large, complex customer commitment portfolios in Google Cloud. You’ll manage coverage, utilization, and risk, driving discounts while avoiding overcommitment and long-term lock-in.

This is a hands-on role focused on real-world commitment strategy and automation at scale. Work with FinOps, product, and engineering teams to shape and implement best practices, ensuring customers maximize value from their GCP commitments and the

Job description

About nOps

nOps is the leading FinOps platform for AWS, Azure, and GCP, helping engineering and finance teams gain real-time cloud cost visibility and achieve autonomous optimization. Our mission is to make cloud cost management effortless, enabling teams to scale innovation without waste. We partner closely with the major hyperscalers and our customers to continuously improve how organizations optimize, manage, and invest in their cloud environments.

As our GCP business continues to grow, we're looking for a GCP FinOps & Commitment Expert with significant hands‑on experience managing GCP commitments in large, complex environments.

We're looking for someone who has actually managed GCP commitment portfolios — making purchasing decisions, monitoring coverage and utilization, responding to changes in usage, and managing commitment risk over time. You'll bring deep operational experience with GCP commitments and work alongside our existing team to continue improving the strategy and automation behind how nOps manages commitments at scale.

About the Role

You'll be one of the primary GCP commitment experts at nOps, helping us manage customer commitment portfolios and turn real‑world GCP FinOps expertise into better automation. The goal: consistently deliver the highest possible effective discount while minimizing overcommitment, unused commitments, and unnecessary long‑term lock‑in.

This is a hands‑on role. We're looking for someone who has been directly responsible for managing GCP commitments and understands what happens after a commitment is purchased — how coverage changes, where utilization breaks down, how workload movement impacts commitments, and when additional commitments should or shouldn't be added.

You'll work closely with our FinOps, product, and engineering teams. Our current team can help shape the broader strategy, while your experience managing commitments in real environments will help ensure our automation reflects how an experienced GCP FinOps practitioner would actually operate.

What You’ll Own

• Actively manage and optimize GCP commitment portfolios across large and complex customer environments
• Evaluate existing commitment positions, coverage, utilization, expiration schedules, and financial exposure
• Make commitment purchasing recommendations and decisions based on actual workload behavior and changing customer demand
• Determine when additional commitments should be purchased, how much should be added, and when maintaining flexibility is more valuable than increasing coverage
• Identify overcommitment, underutilization, coverage gaps, and other sources of commitment inefficiency
• Continuously monitor how workload growth, contraction, migrations, seasonality, and architectural changes affect commitment performance
• Help customers increase commitment coverage while avoiding unnecessary long‑term exposure
• Apply commitment layering by incrementally building commitment positions as durable usage becomes visible
• Determine the appropriate timing, sizing, and duration of commitment purchases
• Balance immediate discount opportunities against the value of maintaining flexibility for future workload changes
• Evaluate the optimal balance between committed and flexible capacity based on workload volatility, growth forecasts, business changes, and risk tolerance
• Analyze effective savings rate, commitment coverage, utilization, waste, expiration risk, and overall financial performance
• Model commitment scenarios and quantify the tradeoffs between higher discounts, increased coverage, and greater long‑term exposure
• Work with FinOps, engineering, finance, and other financial stakeholders to explain commitment performance, risk, and purchasing decisions