Cloud Cost/Finance Ops Engineer

About the role

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Cloud Cost/Finance Engineer to serve as the key liaison between enterprise cloud platform teams and application stakeholders operating across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. In a diverse, multi-cloud ecosystem, the role is responsible for ensuring cloud services are secure, consumable, scalable, and aligned with mission requirements.

You will translate technical cloud capabilities and security requirements into actionable roadmaps and adoption strategies. As the "Voice of the Customer" for the Cloud Engineering teams and a "Champion of Cloud Best Practices" for application teams, you will help drive modernization, cloud-native adoption, and consistent operational excellence across the enterprise.

Work you'll do

• Establish, evangelize, and govern FinOps policies and best practices across multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Lead efforts to optimize cloud commitments (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans) and advise on optimal pricing models for new and existing workloads.
• Serve as the technical expert and architectural advisor for cloud cost optimization, reviewing new and existing designs to ensure cost-effectiveness and efficiency.
• Identify architectural waste and inefficiencies, providing clear, documented remediation plans (e.g., rightsizing, storage tiering, resource lifecycle management).
• Design and build automated tools, scripts, and processes to enforce FinOps governance, detect cost anomalies, and automate remediation actions (e.g., using Python, Terraform, Cloud APIs).
• Develop custom dashboards and data visualizations using cloud-native tools or third-party platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Grafana) to monitor key financial and operational metrics.
• Partner with development teams to refactor and re-architect critical applications for improved cloud efficiency.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Financial reporting and compliance
• Tableau
• Auditing
• Budgeting

Security clearance

• Active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance is required.

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Pay and benefits

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below.

Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:

$111,800—$221,800 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included.

This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.