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In this role, you will develop cloud cost management strategies, implement FinOps best practices, and analyze expenditures on GCP to ensure cost optimization and compliance with regulations.
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Your role in the team
- As a CACI Experienced Cloud FinOps Practitioner to establish and operationalize cloud financial management across the HTAP program's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment.
- This role bridges the program's technical teams, finance, and mission stakeholders to drive cost transparency, accountability, and continuous optimization.
- The individual will implement FinOps best practices, establish cost allocation, and deliver actionable insights that reduce cloud spend while maintaining performance, security, and compliance.
- Establish and maintain the program's cloud cost management framework, aligning cloud spending with DoD financial policies and federal acquisition regulations (FAR).
- Design and operate cost allocation, chargeback, and showback models using GCP Billing and BigQuery to drive cost accountability across HTAP technical teams and mission stakeholders.
- Set budget baselines and forecasts, enforce spending policies and approval guardrails, and deliver monthly variance, trend, and anomaly analysis to program leadership.
- Conduct cost optimization assessments across compute, storage, networking, and data services on GCP, driving right-sizing, committed use discounts (CUDs), and reserved capacity strategies while quantifying realized savings.
- Define and monitor cloud efficiency KPIs (e.g., cost per workload, utilization ratios) and track optimization initiatives from recommendation through implementation.
- Build real-time cost visibility through dashboards and automated alerts using Google Cloud Observability and FinOps tooling (e.g., Cloudability, CloudHealth, or equivalent).
- Embed cost guardrails and tagging enforcement into Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to control spend at deployment time and automate billing reconciliation and cost data integration with enterprise financial systems.
- Advise engineers, architects, and mission owners on cost-effective architecture decisions, and lead FinOps training to foster a culture of cost awareness across Allied, partner, and US operations.
- Ensure cloud spending meets federal compliance requirements (FedRAMP, NIST, DoD SRG) and prepare cost reporting to support leadership reviews and audit activities.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
Qualifications
- US-Bürger mit einer aktiven TS/SCI-Sicherheitsfreigabe.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) certification from the FinOps Foundation.
- Starkes Verständnis von Cloud-Preismodellen, Kostenallokationsmethoden und finanzieller Prognose.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python for cost data analysis and automation, with working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Working knowledge of federal compliance frameworks (FAR, NIST, FedRAMP) and DoD financial policies.
- DoD 8140 / 8570.01-M IAT Level II baseline certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+).
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification (or equivalent AWS/Azure professional certification); GCP preferred. If not currently held, must be obtained within 90-180 days of onboarding.
- Financial credentials such as CPA or CMA.
- Vertrautheit mit AWS- und Azure-Kostenmanagement für Multi-Cloud-Vergleich und -Optimierung.
- Understanding of Agile and DevSecOps practices to align FinOps with the software development lifecycle.
Experience
- 5+ Jahre Erfahrung im Cloud-Finanzmanagement, in der Cloud-Kostenoptimierung oder in Cloud-Finanzbetrieben.
- 3+ Jahre praktische Erfahrung in der Verwaltung von Ausgaben auf einer großen Cloud-Plattform (Google Cloud Platform stark bevorzugt; AWS oder Azure akzeptabel), einschließlich nativer Abrechnungs-/Kosten-Tools und Kernservices (z. B. Compute, Objektspeicherung, verwaltetes Kubernetes und Cloud-Datenlager).
- Hands-on experience with enterprise FinOps platforms (Cloudability, CloudHealth, or Apptio).
- Experience with BigQuery and Looker for cost analytics and visualization.
- Prior experience managing cloud costs in DoD, federal, or other highly regulated environments.
What we offer
- There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
- We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities.
- Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families.
- At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
- The proposed salary range for this position is: $99,300 - 208,600 USD.
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CACI International Inc. is a leading provider of customized solutions and cutting-edge technologies for government customers. Our expertise and advanced technologies support critical national security missions and government modernization.
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