Cloud FinOps Consultant
First seen by Alion on Aug 31, 2026.
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 budget monitoring, cost anomaly detection, cost optimization recommendations, PR/PO tracking, executive reporting, risk identification, compliance monitoring, and 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.
Skills
Cloud Services, Cloud FinOps, AWS, Cloud, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Operations