Senior FinOps Analyst

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $104k - $166k / year

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

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

• Manage cloud financial operations for a large, multi-tenant AWS environment spanning commercial and GovCloud accounts • Improve cost visibility, accountability, and optimization across the organization • Turn cloud usage and spending data into actionable insights for engineering and business teams • Identify opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining system performance, reliability, and availability • Provide consolidated cloud cost reporting and forecasting to leadership, finance, and engineering teams • Track monthly actuals and analyze spending trends • Manage chargeback and cost allocation • Develop fiscal-year cost projections • Analyze AWS utilization data to identify right-sizing opportunities across EC2, RDS, EBS, ELB, and container workloads • Develop prioritized right-sizing recommendations with quantified savings and partner with engineering owners to implement and validate them • Identify idle, orphaned, and overprovisioned resources and coordinate recurring remediation • Manage Reserved Instance and Savings Plan strategy, including coverage analysis, purchase recommendations, utilization monitoring, and lifecycle management • Reduce storage costs through S3 lifecycle policies, appropriate EBS volume types, intelligent tiering, and snapshot management • Establish a continuous optimization process for day-to-day cloud operations • Build and maintain consolidated monthly cost reports covering AWS spend, usage trends, unit economics, and optimization opportunities • Design and manage chargeback and showback models • Implement and enforce cost-allocation tagging strategy and remediate untagged or incorrectly tagged resources • Develop executive dashboards and program-level scorecards using AWS Cost and Usage Reports • Perform root-cause analysis on cost anomalies and unexpected spending variances • Support cost governance and reporting across a multi-account AWS Organizations environment under consolidated billing • Develop fiscal-year cloud spend projections and monthly burn-rate views • Model cost impacts of architectural changes, migrations, and new workload onboarding • Monitor budget utilization, identify variances, and recommend corrective actions • Support annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasts, and business-case development • Configure and manage AWS Budgets and Cost Anomaly Detection thresholds, alerting, investigation, and response processes • Participate in cloud architecture reviews and provide cost estimates and financial guidance • Ensure compliance with financial policies, cloud governance frameworks, and organizational cost controls, including FedRAMP-aligned account and billing boundaries • Partner with finance, IT, engineering, and program teams to align cloud financial strategy and establish shared accountability • Advance FinOps maturity through training, playbooks, standardized processes, and recurring cost-management reviews • Automate recurring cost analysis, reporting, and tag-hygiene activities using Python or SQL

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance • Bachelor's degree with 8 years of experience; a Master's degree with 6 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience • 5+ years of financial analysis experience, with at least 3 years focused on cloud cost management on AWS • Proven experience implementing resource right-sizing at scale, with quantified cost outcomes • Demonstrated experience producing consolidated cost reports, chargeback models, and fiscal year projections • Proven experience participating in cloud architectural reviews and providing cost estimates for proposed designs • High attention to detail and accuracy in financial reporting and forecasting • FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate, or Cloud Financial Management specialty • Experience with third-party FinOps or cloud cost management platforms such as Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, or Vantage • Experience operating in a multi-account AWS Organizations environment with consolidated billing, including GovCloud • Experience consolidating bills across AWS, Azure, and GCP • Familiarity with Kubernetes and container cost allocation, including tools such as Kubecost or OpenCost • Experience supporting FedRAMP, FISMA, or DoD-accredited environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay • Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law