[Hiring] FinOps Practitioner Principal @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a FinOps Practitioner Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. We are seeking a FinOps Practitioner Principal to work across our client organization to deliver solutions aligned with the business capability delivery and with a focus on providing optimized IT at best value. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of cloud service technologies and will integrate with a team that supports opportunities for optimization of cloud services.

The FinOps Practitioner Principal will be part of the Technology Shared Services (TSS) team with a base of operations in Bossier City, LA. TSS provides a variety of services to the programs supported by GDIT. The candidate will deliver FinOps to GDIT program customers. This involves:

• Coordinating meetings
• Identifying and presenting recommendations
• Building and maintaining dashboards
• Sending reports
• Collaborating with FinOps personas to achieve maximum IT value

This role requires a proactive and self-motivated individual who can take ownership of FinOps initiatives, contribute to strategic discussions, and drive measurable cost efficiencies across cloud environments.

As a FinOps Practitioner Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the missions of our customers. You will play a crucial role in the following core responsibilities that include, but are not limited to:

• Performing cloud cost analysis and developing recommendations aligned with FinOps best practices
• Developing and maintaining showback capabilities by project, service, or line of business
• Serving as the FinOps SME in project discussions to ensure cost effective architecture and design
• Supporting cloud budgeting, forecasting, modeling, and financial reporting
• Collaborating with architects and program teams to implement FinOps tools and platforms using federal and industry best practices
• Developing program specific FinOps frameworks including principles, personas, domains, and roadmaps
• Monitoring cloud costs and conducting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses
• Leading technical and financial assessments to identify cost saving design options and usage patterns
• Championing FinOps practices and supporting capability development for stakeholders across the organization
• Supporting the development of centralized financial decision making portals
• Ensuring cloud investments deliver maximum business value through effective cost management strategies
• Providing cost estimation, optimization insights, and ensuring billing accuracy

Qualifications

• Technical Training and/or Certification(s) with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or Google -or- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Science, Information Technology, or other relevant field
• 5+ years working with cloud services (AWS, et al.)
• Experience providing stakeholder or customer support in a technical or financial capacity
• 1+ year performing FinOps practices, including cost analysis, optimization, or cloud financial reporting

Requirements

• Solid understanding of Information Technology (IT) service management and how FinOps integrates with IT operations, their billing models, and cost management tools
• Foundational understanding of cloud services and proficiency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), with specific knowledge of AWS cloud billing tools
• Familiar with AWS service offerings to include resources supporting networks, compute, storage, databases, containers, etc.
• Experience with or exposure to common cloud billing processes and operations practices, to include product pricing models, subscriptions, usage, and invoicing
• Able to lead conversations with distributed teams including technical, finance, executive, business partners, and customers
• Ability to lead a small team and work solo to perform required tasks
• Experience developing business cases, performing TCO/value analysis, and identifying cost optimization opportunities
• Experience delivering reports and presentations that articulate cloud cost impacts and design tradeoffs
• Experience with AWS native tools such as Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and/or Amazon QuickSight
• Experienced user of common office applications such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams, and SharePoint
• Working knowledge of IT service management tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, or BMC Remedy
• Professional with strong communication skills who works well within a team
• Must possess analytical skills to solve simple to complex problems
• Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust

Benefits

• AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace