Senior DevSecOps, Cloud Governance Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead an engagement lasting approximately eight weeks to establish cloud governance, financial management, and policy standards within a large-scale Azure environment.

• Collaborate directly with client cloud infrastructure and IT finance teams to design and implement governance controls.

• Evaluate Azure governance, financial management, resource organization, tagging, and policy practices.

• Facilitate discussions that define tagging standards, ownership, inheritance, allowed values, and exception handling.

• Design and implement Azure Management Group hierarchies across different subscriptions and environments.

• Author and implement Azure Policy definitions and initiatives focused on governance, security, compliance, and cost management.

• Establish governance as code using Terraform and GitHub Actions, including deployment and promotion workflows.

• Implement strategies for audit, denial, and exemption policy rollout.

• Develop compliance reporting and remediation processes.

• Evaluate budgets, alerts, thresholds, approval processes, and cost allocation methods.

• Conduct Azure optimization reviews that cover utilization, right-sizing, reservations, commitments, idle resources, regions, and SKUs.

• Quantify optimization opportunities and effectively communicate the financial impact to both technical and finance stakeholders.

• Develop approaches for showback, cost attribution, shared-cost allocation, and resource ownership.

• Assess governance and financial management across additional cloud platforms.

• Create reusable governance patterns, technical standards, implementation guidance, and documentation.

• Establish ongoing compliance and financial management processes.

• Partner with client administrators through paired implementation, knowledge sharing, and coaching.

• Present findings and recommendations to technical leadership and executives.

• Develop a FinOps maturity roadmap and a prioritized future backlog.

• Create runbooks and handoff materials to enable independent client operation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must reside within the United States.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, both now and in the future.

• Must be able to successfully pass a background check.

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud architecture, DevSecOps, platform engineering, FinOps, cloud governance, or related fields.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud governance in enterprise environments.

• Strong experience in designing and implementing Azure Management Group hierarchies and organizing enterprise Azure subscriptions.

• Significant hands-on experience with Azure Policy, including custom policy definitions, initiatives, assignments, audit and deny effects, exemptions, and compliance reporting.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, and the ability to build governance deployment workflows.

• Proficient in using GitHub Actions and modern Git-based development and deployment practices.

• Solid understanding of FinOps principles and practical cloud financial management.

• Experience in developing cloud tagging and resource organization standards.

• Familiarity with Azure Cost Management, billing data, cost allocation, showback/chargeback concepts, and cloud financial reporting.

• Proven experience in identifying and quantifying cloud optimization opportunities.

• Ability to connect technical optimization findings to measurable financial impacts.

• Strong understanding of integrating cloud governance and policy controls into provisioning, deployment, and operational processes.

• Capacity to assess environments, identify gaps, and create remediation and implementation plans.

• Excellent consulting, stakeholder facilitation, recommendation, and prioritization skills.

• Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, administrators, finance leaders, infrastructure leadership, architects, and executives.

• Capability to independently drive an engagement with parallel workstreams and deliverables.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills alongside technical documentation proficiency.

• A collaborative mindset focused on coaching and contribution.

• Preferred: Experience with Google Cloud organization policies, AWS governance, ServiceNow Cloud Cost Management, Power BI, FinOps certification, AI/ML cost models, regulated environments, enterprise governance standards, and consulting engagement leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work remotely from anywhere in the United States with flexible working hours.

• Access to sponsored and supported learning opportunities.

• Potential for follow-on work as the client advances in its cloud governance and FinOps transformation.

• A certified Great Place to Work® culture.