job summary:
Our client is seeking a FinOps Project Manager for their team!
location: Columbus, Ohio
job type: Contract
salary: $58 - 59 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
FinOps Responsibilities
- Support the planning, execution, and successful delivery of FinOps initiatives in support of organization goals.
- Establish and maintain KPIs related to cloud financial health, including tagging compliance and cost-per-workload metrics.
- Promote awareness of cloud economics and foster ownership of cost efficiency across Finance, Product, Engineering and Business teams.
- Develop structured reporting to support leadership decision-making and enhance visibility into cloud expenditures.
- Monitor and report on cloud budgets, anomalies, usage patterns, and forecasts to ensure alignment with project and organizational priorities.
- Help teams understand the value of FinOps recommendations, securing buy-in and integrating them into product roadmaps and team backlogs.
- Contribute to the evolution of FinOps processes, tools, and governance frameworks.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes, improve reporting clarity, and enhance cloud cost governance.
- Leverage tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Cloudability, and AWS anomaly detection to identify, investigate, and resolve unusual cloud cost activities while implementing preventative measures
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General Responsibilities
- Lead project planning, backlog refinement, sprint execution, and post-mortem ceremonies for one or more SRE teams.
- Proactively manage Jira hygiene and workflows-ensuring that tickets are well-defined, estimated, assigned, and properly linked to Epics, Themes, and organizational priorities.
- Track and report progress on engineering and cost-focused initiatives using dashboards, Confluence documentation, and recurring status updates.
- Facilitate regular team ceremonies and leadership reviews, keeping meetings focused, data-driven, and outcome-oriented.
- Support compliance, access control, and decommissioning efforts across cloud and on-prem systems.
- Act as a steward of engineering time-minimizing context-switching, streamlining workflows, and closing the loop on stale or duplicative work.
- Contribute to shared documentation and knowledge management across the program.
- Continuously improve team processes through retrospectives and experimentation.
qualifications:
We are looking for a strong FinOps Project Manager (FPM) is a strategic and execution-focused leader responsible for driving alignment, visibility, and delivery across FinOps initiatives spanning Finance, Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
Looking for some with 5+ years of experience in technical program management, project management, or product ownership roles within finops or software engineering/development teams.
Candidate with FinOps experience is must.
Experience with cloud financial tools such as AWS Cost Explorer or Cloudability is needed.
Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and Jira/Confluence
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or FinOps Certified Practitioner nice to have
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
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