Remote Lead: Cloud FinOps & Cost Governance (Multi-Cloud)

FinOps Weekly; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote position

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking a Cloud Cost Governance Lead to own and optimize cloud spending across Azure, AWS, and GCP in a fully remote, senior capacity. You will mentor teams and drive accountability for cost governance, with a focus on data-driven insights and scalable cost reporting.

In this role, you will coordinate with engineering, finance, and cloud providers to implement forecasting, budgeting, and spend governance, delivering impact across global workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure environments with strong exposure to FinOps or cloud cost governance.
• At least 5+ years of hands-on Azure cost management at scale, including multi-tenant environments and reservation management.
• 3+ years of AWS cost governance experience using Cost Explorer, CUR, Organizations, Budgets, anomaly detection, and Savings Plans or RI.
• GCP billing experience including BigQuery exports, budgeting, and committed-use discount management.
• Strong experience building and maintaining cost reporting pipelines and dashboards using Power BI, SQL, or BigQuery.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end cloud cost visibility across Azure, AWS, and GCP, ensuring a single source of truth for all cloud spending and classifications.
• Monitor daily cost activity and anomalies using native cloud tools, implementing alerts across tenants, accounts, and workloads.
• Lead root cause analysis of cost incidents, partnering with engineering, finance, and cloud providers to resolve issues and quantify impact.
• Ensure alignment between provisioning systems and actual billing data, closing gaps between platform actions and cloud charges.
• Build and maintain robust cost data pipelines and reporting systems using tools such as Power BI, SQL, BigQuery, and cloud billing exports.
• Identify and drive refund or credit recovery opportunities with cloud providers.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting, and optimization initiatives including rightsizing, commitment-based savings, and spend governance.

Skills

FinOps

Azure cost mgmt

AWS cost governance

GCP billing

Power BI

SQL

BigQuery

Data analysis

Tools

Cost Explorer

BigQuery

Power BI

Job description

FinOps Weekly is seeking a Cloud Cost Governance Lead to own and optimize cloud spending across Azure, AWS, and GCP in a fully remote, senior capacity. You will mentor teams and drive accountability for cost governance, with a focus on data-driven insights and scalable cost reporting.

In this role, you will coordinate with engineering, finance, and cloud providers to implement forecasting, budgeting, and spend governance, delivering impact across global workloads.