Cloud Cost Optimization Program Manager

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🔥 15 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

📋 Program Manager

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Virtasant

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏢 Enterprise

🤝 B2B

Consulting • Enterprise • B2B

Virtasant is a cloud services and optimization company that helps businesses migrate to, manage, and build on public cloud platforms. They combine a proprietary automation platform with managed services and FinOps expertise to reduce cloud costs (claiming average savings of over 50%), support Cloud FinOps programs, and deliver outcome-based engagements rather than hourly or seat-based billing. Virtasant also provides enterprise AI guidance and partners with major cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) to deliver migration, optimization, and 24/7 managed operations.

📋 Description

• Partner directly with AWS and GCP account and technical teams to identify savings opportunities, resolve billing or data issues, and drive optimization commitments through completion • Build and manage a pipeline of cloud cost reduction initiatives across compute, storage, networking, and platform services • Partner with engineering teams to scope, prioritize, and track rightsizing, commitment optimization, architecture changes, and workload migration initiatives • Monitor cloud spend, anomalies, forecasts, and optimization opportunities, proactively identifying risks and areas for improvement • Work with cloud billing, usage, tagging, and allocation data to support cost analysis and savings validation • Prepare financial analyses, business cases, forecasts, and savings reports for senior and executive stakeholders • Translate complex cloud infrastructure and financial data into clear recommendations and decision-making narratives • Own recurring cloud cost governance and reporting cadences across engineering and leadership teams • Improve processes around tagging, forecasting, cost allocation, savings validation, and optimization tracking • Manage timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables across multiple engineering and business teams • Drive execution through influence and strong stakeholder relationships rather than direct authority • Support a large-scale cloud optimization program for a Fortune 50 technology organization

🎯 Requirements

• 14+ years of professional experience, including significant experience leading complex technical programs in large enterprise environments • Strong experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, cloud economics, or cloud financial management • Strong knowledge of AWS and/or GCP, including cloud infrastructure, pricing, billing, usage, and cost optimization concepts • Demonstrated experience driving measurable cloud cost optimization initiatives with engineering or infrastructure teams • Strong Technical Program Management experience across complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives • Experience partnering directly with Cloud Service Providers and/or managing CSP-related technical and cost initiatives • Ability to work with cloud cost and usage data, with working knowledge of SQL, scripting, data pipelines, and/or data modeling • Experience developing financial analyses, forecasts, business cases, savings reporting, and executive-level communications • Proven ability to influence engineering teams and drive delivery without direct management authority • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior and executive stakeholders • Based in the United States or Canada with availability for significant Pacific Time overlap • For US candidates, existing authorization to work in the United States without current or future employment visa sponsorship • Experience with Apptio Cloudability, VMware CloudHealth, or similar FinOps platforms • Experience with AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), GCP Cloud Billing, or equivalent native CSP tooling • FinOps Foundation certification or other formal FinOps training • Experience supporting cloud environments operating at significant enterprise scale • Experience designing or improving tagging, cost allocation, forecasting, anomaly management, or cloud governance processes • Exposure to multi-cloud cost optimization across both AWS and GCP

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off after the first 3 months of engagement, including applicable local holidays • Long-term opportunity supporting a large-scale global technology organization • Collaboration with senior engineering leaders, cloud specialists, CSP partners, and executive stakeholders • High-impact work with direct, measurable influence on cloud optimization and operational efficiency • Remote opportunity for candidates based in the United States and Canada