System Administrator

Modis is seeking a System Administrator for a Contract job with a client in Dallas, TX. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading cloud cost management initiatives, driving financial governance, optimizing cloud consumption, and providing executive-level reporting across Azure-led multi-cloud environments. Rate Range: $42/hour to $45/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

System Administrator (Cloud FinOps SME) job responsibilities include:

• Lead cloud financial management initiatives across Azure and GCP environments, including cost optimization, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and governance activities.
• Manage Azure Cost Management and Billing capabilities, including Cost Analysis, Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, budgets, exports, and Azure Advisor recommendations.
• Support GCP financial operations, including billing analysis, budgeting, committed-use discounts, cost reporting, labeling strategies, and resource optimization initiatives.
• Develop and maintain showback and chargeback models, allocation methodologies, tagging standards, cost accountability frameworks, and business-unit reporting structures.
• Identify idle, orphaned, oversized, and underutilized cloud resources and drive remediation efforts to achieve measurable cost savings.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, operations, finance, procurement, and business stakeholders to improve cloud cost transparency and accountability.
• Develop Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Return on Investment (ROI), and scenario-based financial models to support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Create executive dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and financial reports that communicate cloud spending trends and optimization opportunities.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Ten or more years of overall IT experience, including at least seven years of Cloud FinOps, cloud financial management, cloud economics, or related experience.
• Extensive expertise with Microsoft Azure Cost Management and Billing, including Cost Analysis, Budgets, Exports, Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and Azure Advisor.
• Hands-on experience with Apptio Cloudability, including cost allocation, optimization recommendations, forecasting, dashboards, budgeting, and reporting capabilities.
• Strong working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing management, budgets, committed-use discounts, labels, utilization reporting, and cost optimization techniques.
• Deep understanding of FinOps methodologies, cloud economics, cloud governance, cost allocation, showback/chargeback models, and cloud consumption management.
• Experience developing cloud unit-cost metrics, financial governance frameworks, and cloud spend optimization strategies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• FinOps Certified Practitioner, FinOps Certified Professional, or equivalent cloud financial management certification.
• Microsoft Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, or related Microsoft certifications.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) certifications.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud migration, modernization, and multi-cloud transformation initiatives.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Modis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at Shashank.Tewari@modis.com

Pay Details: $42.00 to $45.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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