# Cloud FinOps Analyst

Washington DC (Hybrid) | Full-Time | Top Secret Clearance Required

## About the Role
This role supports cloud financial management across AWS and OCI, with a focus on identifying cost anomalies, waste, and opportunities to improve spend efficiency.

The position works closely with application, infrastructure, and platform teams to turn usage analysis into practical optimization actions. It also supports budgeting, forecasting, monthly spend reviews, and cloud cost governance.

A key part of the role is improving visibility into cloud spending through dashboards, reporting, KPIs, and variance analysis. The work contributes to stronger FinOps processes and operating rhythms across the cloud environment.

## Key Responsibilities
– Review AWS and OCI usage, billing, and consumption trends to identify anomalies, waste, and optimization opportunities.
– Analyze cloud resources for rightsizing, idle or underused capacity, storage inefficiencies, data transfer costs, and licensing impacts.
– Recommend spend reduction actions, including reserved capacity, savings plans, commitment strategies, scheduling, tagging improvements, and architectural changes.
– Build and maintain dashboards, reports, and KPIs for cost visibility, budget tracking, forecasting, and variance analysis.
– Partner with application, infrastructure, and platform teams to prioritize and implement optimization initiatives.
– Monitor adherence to tagging, chargeback/showback, and cloud financial management policies.
– Support budgeting, monthly spend reviews, and forecast updates for cloud environments.
– Investigate billing discrepancies and usage spikes, and communicate root causes and remediation steps to stakeholders.
– Help advance FinOps processes, governance, and operating rhythms across AWS and OCI.

## Required Skills
– Top Secret clearance.
– Experience analyzing AWS and OCI cloud usage, billing, and consumption data.
– Ability to identify cloud cost anomalies, waste, and optimization opportunities.
– Experience developing dashboards, reports, KPIs, forecasts, and variance analysis.
– Ability to work with technical stakeholders across application, infrastructure, and platform teams.
– Understanding of cloud financial management practices, including tagging and chargeback/showback.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies
### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

### Reporting & BI
– Dashboards
– Reports
– KPIs

## FinOps Responsibilities
– Cloud cost optimization
– Rightsizing analysis
– Idle and underutilized resource review
– Storage efficiency analysis
– Data transfer cost analysis
– Licensing impact review
– Reserved capacity and savings plan recommendations
– Commitment strategy support
– Scheduling-based cost control
– Tagging strategy improvement
– Budget tracking and forecast updates
– Variance analysis
– Chargeback/showback monitoring
– Cost governance and policy adherence
– Billing discrepancy investigation
– Usage spike analysis
– FinOps process maturity improvements

## Why You Might Be Interested
This role offers direct ownership of cloud spend analysis and optimization across AWS and OCI. It combines hands-on financial analysis with cross-functional collaboration and governance work. The position is well suited to someone who wants to influence cloud cost decisions while supporting budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. It also includes a hybrid Washington DC location and requires Top Secret clearance.