Remote FinOps Specialist — Cloud Cost & Optimization

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision insurance

401K with company matching

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays

PTO - three weeks

Job summary

Koniag Data Solutions, LLC (KDS) seeks a FinOps Specialist to support cloud-financial management operations for ACF, a DHHS component. The role is remote and requires the candidate to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401K with match, FSAs, paid holidays, and PTO. Responsibilities include cloud-cost analysis across AWS/Azure/GCP, building chargeback/showback models, and delivering biweekly dashboards reflecting spend,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, CS, IS, Business Admin, or related field.
• 3+ years in cloud financial management, FinOps, IT finance, or related discipline.
• Experience with cloud-cost-management tools (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing, CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, etc.).
• Experience developing and managing chargeback/showback models in a multi-team or enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Perform ongoing cloud-cost analysis across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to identify spending trends, anomalies, optimization opportunities, and risks.
• Develop, maintain, and execute chargeback and showback models to allocate cloud costs to cost centers.
• Build, maintain, and deliver biweekly dashboards and reports reflecting cloud-spend trends, variances, utilization, forecast changes, material issues, and risks.
• Monitor cloud budgets, forecast future spend, and provide timely reporting and variance analysis to leadership, program management, and finance stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering, cloud architecture, and DevOps to identify and implement cost-saving recommendations (right-sizing, savings plans, RI, tagging).
• Support the development and enforcement of cloud cost-governance policies, tagging standards, allocation rules, budget controls, and financial-management best practices.
• Partner with procurement and vendor-management to evaluate cloud pricing agreements, discounts, and contract terms.
• Support project budget adherence by identifying cost pressures and coordinating corrective actions with program stakeholders.
• Support documentation and validation of Other Direct Cost expenditures and COR pre-approval tracking.

Skills

Cloud cost management

Chargeback/showback

Dashboards/reports

Budget forecasting

Cost optimization

Cloud pricing models

Excel/Sheets

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS Cost Explorer

Azure Cost Management

GCP Billing

CloudHealth

Apptio Cloudability

Terraform

Job description

Koniag Data Solutions, LLC (KDS) seeks a FinOps Specialist to support cloud-financial management operations for ACF, a DHHS component. The role is remote and requires the candidate to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401K with match, FSAs, paid holidays, and PTO. Responsibilities include cloud-cost analysis across AWS/Azure/GCP, building chargeback/showback models, and delivering biweekly dashboards reflecting spend,