FinOps Specialist; REMOTE

This position may be filled prior to the posted deadline.

Koniag Data Solutions, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Fin Ops Specialist to support KDS and our government customer. The position is remote. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.

Koniag Data Solutions, LLC (KDS), a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking an experienced Fin Ops Specialist to support cloud-financial management operations for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services component. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented financial and technical professional with strong analytical skills, a practical understanding of cloud pricing models, and a commitment to financial accountability, transparency, and cost optimization.

The Fin Ops Specialist will perform a key technical role supporting ACF cloud modernization, cybersecurity, operational resilience, and mission delivery.

• Perform ongoing cloud-cost analysis across one or more cloud service providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP, to identify spending trends, anomalies, optimization opportunities, and risks.
• Develop, maintain, and execute chargeback and showback models that accurately allocate cloud costs to appropriate business units, programs, systems, or cost centers.
• Build, maintain, and deliver biweekly dashboards and reports reflecting cloud-spend trends, budget variances, utilization, forecast changes, material issues, and risks.
• Monitor cloud budgets, forecast future spend, and provide timely reporting and actionable variance analysis to leadership, program management, and finance stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering, cloud architecture, and Dev Ops teams to identify and implement cost-saving recommendations, including right-sizing, savings plans, reserved instances, resource scheduling, storage optimization, and tagging improvements.
• Support the development and enforcement of cloud cost-governance policies, tagging standards, allocation rules, budget controls, and financial-management best practices.
• Partner with procurement and vendor-management teams to evaluate cloud pricing agreements, enterprise discount programs, consumption commitments, and contract terms.
• Support project budget adherence by identifying emerging cost pressures, reporting risks and variances, and coordinating recommended corrective actions with program stakeholders.
• Support documentation, tracking, and validation of Other Direct Cost (ODC) expenditures by maintaining accurate cost records, confirming that required supporting documentation is available, and tracking written Contracting Officer Representative (COR) pre-approval status before costs are incurred. This role does not approve ODC expenditures.
• Assess and document whether proposed ODC expenditures appear fair and reasonable based on available pricing, estimates, or comparable cost information; elevate findings to the appropriate program, contracts, procurement, or COR authority for review and disposition.
• Participate in Agile or program-management ceremonies, including sprint planning and backlog refinement, as they relate to Fin Ops priorities and cost-optimization activities.
• Maintain current documentation of chargeback methodologies, cost-allocation models, dashboard logic, forecasts, optimization findings, ODC support records, and governance decisions.
• Serve as a subject matter resource on Fin Ops principles, helping technical,…