Cloud FinOps Lead

Role Overview

The Cloud FinOps Lead will oversee VA’s enterprise cloud financial operations, ensuring accurate forecasting, cost optimization, transparent reporting, and strong financial governance across all VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environments.

What You Will Do

The Cloud FinOps Lead will lead cloud financial management processes, maintain cost models and dashboards, strengthen tagging and allocation strategies, identify optimization opportunities, and ensure VA meets key FinOps performance standards.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The Cloud FinOps Lead will drive continuous improvement by refining tagging standards, enhancing dashboards, modernizing reporting structures, embedding automation, addressing inefficiencies, and maturing VA’s enterprise cloud financial governance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience
• Experience leading cloud financial operations (FinOps), cloud cost management, or enterprise financial governance
• Demonstrated expertise with multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, VAEC) and cloud financial management tools
• Strong understanding of ITSM, cloud service delivery, financial analytics, forecasting, and governance frameworks
• Ability to evaluate cloud cost reports, usage models, allocation data, tagging strategies, and forecasting outputs for accuracy and completeness
• Experience developing financial performance plans, optimization dashboards, reporting packages, unit economics models, and corrective-action processes
• Excellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across cloud engineering, finance, cybersecurity, hosting operations, and federal organizations

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Benefits
• 401(k) match
• Full flex work weeks
• Paid time off plans
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
• Medical plan options
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• Paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave