Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer

🔥 18 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $86k - $138k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

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Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary financial operations authority for a multi-environment AWS cloud platform supporting software developers, business analysts, and Government staff • Own end-to-end cloud cost management from consumption forecasting through rightsizing recommendations and budget enforcement • Produce monthly FinOps reports with cloud and AI consumption forecasts versus actuals, unit economics, and Government-facing chargeback views • Configure and manage AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Cost Anomaly Detection, and Trusted Advisor • Develop and maintain quarterly rightsizing recommendation packages and present optimization strategies to Government stakeholders • Implement and enforce auto-suspend policies for non-production environments as directed by the customer • Manage AI/ML cost tracking for Amazon Bedrock LLM inference and token consumption • Issue Limitation of Funds notifications at the 75% consumption threshold and provide 60-day advance warning before funding exhaustion • Maintain compliance with FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, and applicable DOI security and financial policies • Complete annual DOI IT Security Awareness Training and execute required DOI Rules of Behavior and non-disclosure agreements

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance • All work must be performed within the United States; no international work permitted • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of professional experience, or Master’s degree and 6 years, or PhD and 3 years, or Associate’s degree and 10 years, or high school diploma/equivalent and 12 years • 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, including at least 2 years focused on cloud financial management (FinOps) • Knowledge and experience with FinOps Foundation best practices for cloud and AI, including Tokenomics, FOCUS, and tagging strategies • Experience managing AWS cost attribution, budgets, and financial reporting in a multi-account, multi-environment AWS Organization • Ability to build and deliver recurring cloud consumption reports and cost optimization deliverables for Government or enterprise clients • Advanced proficiency with AWS Cost Management tools: Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, and Trusted Advisor • Understanding of Amazon Bedrock or other LLM/AI token-based cost models • Experience with Databricks or similar data platform cost management • Proficiency in reporting tools and presenting financial data clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience supporting U.S. federal government programs with FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST SP 800-53 compliance requirements • One or more required certifications, or ability to obtain within 90 days: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional; FinOps Certified Engineer; FinOps Certified AI Value • Preferred: experience with FinOps for AI/ML cost management, Databricks cost governance, AWS Organizations/tag policies/SCPs, AWS compute services, ETL pipelines, third-party cloud financial management tools, DOI/USGS programs, Agile/Scrum with GitLab or Atlassian, NIST standards, cloud governance, data engineering/analytics platforms, and federal acquisition regulations

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime • Shift differential may be available • Discretionary bonus may be available