Cloud FinOps SME

Job Description: Cloud FinOps SME

Job Details

• Job Title: Cloud FinOps SME (Subject Matter Expert)
• Location: Dallas, AR
• Duration: 6 months
• GBaMS ReqID: 11017663

Role Summary

• Senior Cloud FinOps SME responsible for cloud financial management, cost optimization, governance, forecasting, cost allocation, and executive reporting.
• Focus on Microsoft Azure-led multi-cloud environments.
• Requires deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and hands-on experience with Apptio Cloudability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Azure and GCP cloud cost analysis, optimization, budgeting, forecasting, variance management, and financial governance.
• Manage Azure Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, budgets, cost analysis, exports, and Azure Advisor recommendations.
• Support GCP billing analysis, budgets, committed use discounts, labels, resource utilization, and cost optimization.
• Develop showback/chargeback models, tagging standards, cost allocation rules, unit-cost metrics, dashboards, and executive reports.
• Identify idle, orphaned, oversized, and underutilized cloud resources.
• Quantify potential savings and track remediation through actual savings realization.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, operations, finance, procurement, and business teams to improve cloud cost accountability.
• Develop cost models, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Return on Investment (ROI), and scenario analyses.
• Support cloud migration, modernization, and architecture decision-making through financial analysis.

Required Technical Skills

• 10+ years of overall IT experience, including 7+ years in Cloud FinOps, cloud economics, or cloud financial management.

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure Cost Management and Billing.

• Experience with Azure Cost Analysis, budgets, exports, Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and Azure Advisor.

• Hands-on expertise with Apptio Cloudability, including:

• Cost allocation and reporting.

• Cloud cost optimization insights.

• Budgeting and forecasting.

• Dashboard development.

• Business-unit cost views.

• Working knowledge of GCP Cloud Billing, budgets, committed use discounts, labels, reporting, and resource optimization.

• Strong understanding of the FinOps Framework and cloud financial management.

• Experience with showback/chargeback, unit economics, rate optimization, governance, and anomaly management.

• Advanced analytical and reporting skills using Power BI, Excel, SQL, APIs, or equivalent tools.

• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• Ability to translate technical and financial data into actionable business recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner, FinOps Professional, or equivalent certification.
• Microsoft Azure Administrator certification.
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect certification.
• GCP certification is an advantage.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud migration programs.
• Experience with cloud modernization and multi-cloud governance initiatives.

Key Skills and Resume Search Keywords

• Cloud FinOps
• Cloud Financial Management
• Cloud Economics
• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Cost Management and Billing
• Azure Cost Analysis
• Azure Reservations
• Azure Savings Plans
• Azure Hybrid Benefit
• Azure Advisor
• Apptio Cloudability
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• GCP Cloud Billing
• Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)
• Cloud Cost Optimization
• Cloud Budgeting and Forecasting
• Cost Allocation
• Showback and Chargeback
• FinOps Framework
• Unit Economics
• Rate Optimization
• Cloud Governance
• Cost Anomaly Management
• Power BI
• Advanced Excel
• SQL and APIs
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Cloud Migration and Modernization
• Multi-Cloud Governance
• Executive Reporting and Stakeholder Management

Essential Skills

• Microsoft Azure Cost Management
• Apptio Cloudability
• Cloud FinOps and Cost Optimization
• Azure and GCP Financial Management
• Cloud Budgeting and Forecasting
• Cost Allocation and Governance
• Showback/Chargeback Models
• Power BI, Excel, and SQL
• Executive Reporting and Communication

Experience Requirements

• Overall IT Experience: 10+ years
• Cloud FinOps Experience: 7+ years
• Primary Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure
• Secondary Cloud Platform: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• FinOps Tool: Apptio Cloudability
• Work Location: Dallas, AR
• Contract Duration: 6 months