Cloud FinOps Consultant

Key Responsibilities

Cloud FinOps & Financial Governance

• Manage infrastructure budget planning, forecasting, and tracking.
• Drive infrastructure cost optimization initiatives across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Develop and operationalize showback, chargeback, and debit frameworks.
• Establish infrastructure financial governance processes and controls.
• Create executive dashboards for spend visibility, consumption trends, and optimization opportunities.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, and Technology teams to drive financial accountability.

Procurement & Commercial Management

• Manage PR/PO lifecycle for infrastructure services.
• Track contracts, renewals, and vendor commercial commitments.
• Support infrastructure financial planning and procurement governance.
• Ensure timely processing of technology procurements and budget utilization.

Infrastructure Governance & Transformation

• Own and maintain the Infrastructure roadmap.
• Coordinate with Cloud, Network, Security, Platform, Workplace, and Data Center teams.
• Track project milestones, risks, dependencies, and escalations.
• Facilitate governance reviews and leadership reporting.
• Drive execution discipline across infrastructure initiatives.

Agentic AI Development & Automation

• Design, build, and deploy AI agents to automate FinOps, governance, and operational workflows.
• Create AI agents for:

o Budget monitoring

o Cost anomaly detection

o Cost optimization recommendations

o PR/PO tracking

o Executive reporting

o Risk identification

o Compliance monitoring

o Infrastructure health insights

• Build copilots and workflow agents leveraging enterprise AI platforms.
• Integrate AI solutions with ITSM, monitoring, cloud, and financial systems.
• Continuously improve operational efficiency through AI-driven automation.

Enterprise AI & Infrastructure Innovation

• Support larger AI transformation initiatives within the Infrastructure organization.
• Identify use cases where AI can improve productivity, governance, decision-making, and service delivery.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Data, Security, and AI teams to develop scalable enterprise AI solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption opportunities.
• Act as the Infrastructure function's AI champion.

Preferred Technical Skills

Cloud & FinOps

• Azure / AWS fundamentals
• Cloud Cost Management
• FinOps Frameworks
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Chargeback / Showback Models

AI & Automation

• Microsoft Copilot Studio
• Azure AI Foundry
• Azure OpenAI
• LangChain / LangGraph
• AutoGen
• CrewAI
• Power Platform
• Power Automate
• API Integrations
• Prompt Engineering
• RAG Architectures
• Workflow Automation

Governance & Strategy

• PMO Management
• Business Case Development
• Executive Reporting
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk & Dependency Management

Must have

• 6+ years of experience
• Understands Cloud services & costing in depth
• Experienced in Cloud FinOps – Chargeback, Budget, Cost Optimization, Governance, Tagging
• Experienced in building AI agents independently using low-code and code-based platforms

Good to have

• Certifications – AWS Cloud, FinOps, AI
• Experience in Cloud business cases
• PMO experience