Cloud FinOps SME

Role: Cloud FinOps SME

Location: Dallas, TX

Role Summary

Senior Cloud FinOps SME responsible for driving cloud financial management, cost optimization, governance, forecasting, allocation, and executive reporting across Azure-led multi-cloud environments. The role requires deep Microsoft Azure expertise, working knowledge of 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 optimization.

Develop showback/chargeback models, tagging standards, allocation rules, unit-cost metrics, dashboards, and executive reports.

Identify idle, orphaned, oversized, and underutilized resources; quantify savings and track remediation through realization.

Partner with engineering, architecture, operations, finance, procurement, and business teams to drive cost accountability.

Provide cost models, TCO, ROI, and scenario analysis for cloud migration, modernization, and architecture decisions.

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

Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure Cost Management and Billing, Cost Analysis, budgets, exports, Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and Azure Advisor.

Hands-on expertise with Apptio Cloudability, including cost allocation, reporting, optimization insights, budgeting/forecasting, dashboards, and business-unit views.

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

Strong knowledge of the FinOps Framework, cloud cost allocation, 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, with the ability to convert technical and financial data into actionable recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional or equivalent certification.

Microsoft Azure Administrator or Azure Solutions Architect certification; GCP certification is an advantage.

Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud migration, modernization, or multi-cloud governance programs.