Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with PTO

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a highly skilled FinOps Cloud Engineer to support the DOI USGS Permitting Modernization and Cloud Infrastructure program. You will own end-to-end cloud cost management across a multi-environment AWS platform, serving 50+ developers, 20 business analysts, and government staff in a FedRAMP-compliant setting.

In this remote role, you will lead forecasting, budgeting, rightsizing, and cost optimization efforts, ensuring compliance with FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST standards while

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship or ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Work within United States; all work performed in US.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, or associate degree with corresponding years of professional experience.
• 5+ years hands-on cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years in cloud financial management (FinOps).
• Knowledge of FinOps Foundation Best Practices for cloud and AI including tokenization, tagging strategies.
• Experience managing AWS cost attribution, budgets, and financial reporting in multi-account environments.
• Proven ability to deliver recurring cloud consumption reports and cost optimization deliverables for Government/enterprise clients.
• Advanced proficiency with AWS Cost Management tools (Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Trusted Advisor).
• Understanding of Amazon Bedrock or other LLM/AI token-based cost models.
• Experience with Databricks or similar data platform cost management.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53 compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly FinOps reports with cloud and AI consumption forecasts vs. actuals.
• Configure and manage AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Cost Anomaly Detection, and Trusted Advisor.
• Develop rightsizing recommendation packages and present optimization strategies to Government stakeholders.
• Implement auto-suspend policies for non-production environments to reduce idle costs.
• Manage AI/ML cost tracking for Bedrock LLM inference and token consumption.
• Issue 75% consumption notifications and provide 60-day advance warnings before funding runs out.
• Maintain compliance with FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53 and related policies.
• Complete mandatory annual security training and required vendor behavior agreements.

Skills

Cloud engineering

FinOps

AWS cost management

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher with required years experience

Tools

Databricks

AWS Cost Management tools

Amazon Bedrock

Job description

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Program Overview

The program is an IDIQ contract for an AWS-based cloud hosting system. Currently, Peraton is supporting the Cloud Security, IoT, and AIML use cases for the environment in a hybrid work environment with Federal employees. Peraton also support the following applications as part of the environment: Dremio, Tableau, Globus, Posit/RStudio, Atlassian, ThingLogix, Alteryx and CloudCheckr.

About The Role

Peraton is seeking a skilled and motivated FinOps Cloud Engineer to support DOI USGS Permitting Modernization and Cloud Infrastructure program. You will serve as the primary financial operations authority for a multi-environment AWS cloud platform supporting 50+ software developers, 20 business analysts, and Government staff engaged in permitting modernization. You will own end-to-end cloud cost management from consumption forecasting to rightsizing recommendations and budget enforcement, following the FinOps Foundation's Inform Optimize Operate framework. This is a high-visibility, mission-critical role operating within a FedRAMP-compliant federal environment, directly supporting one of DOI's flagship technology modernization efforts.

Peraton supports the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in modernizing the federal permitting process through the Permitting Modernization and Cloud Infrastructure program. At the heart of this initiative is the WARP platform (Workflows, Authorizations, Registrations, and Permits), a cloud-native AWS environment purpose-built to streamline and accelerate how the federal government processes permits, authorizations, and registrations. The program leverages cutting‑edge cloud infrastructure, AI‑assisted decision support, and advanced data engineering to serve a large, distributed team of developers, business analysts, and Government stakeholders. Peraton's role spans the full lifecycle of cloud operations from provisioning and managing secure multi-environment AWS infrastructure and AI/ML services to delivering workforce training and certification, all within a rigorous federal compliance framework including FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST security standards.

Work Location

Remote

What You Will Do

• Produce monthly FinOps reports including cloud and AI consumption forecasts vs. actuals, unit economics, and Government-facing chargeback views aligned to contract deliverables.
• Configure and manage AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Cost Anomaly Detection, and Trusted Advisor to monitor spending, identify anomalies, and enforce financial guardrails.
• Develop and maintain quarterly rightsizing recommendation packages, identifying underutilized or over-provisioned resources and presenting actionable optimization strategies to Government stakeholders.
• Implement and enforce auto-suspend policies for non-production environments to reduce idle consumption costs, as directed by the customer.
• Manage AI/ML cost tracking for Amazon Bedrock LLM inference and token consumption, applying FinOps for AI disciplines.
• Issue Limitation of Funds notifications to the Contracting Officer 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 all applicable DOI security and financial policies.
• Complete mandatory annual DOI IT Security Awareness Training and execute required DOI Rules of Behavior and non-disclosure agreements.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States.
• Must perform all work within the United States; no international work permitted under this contract.
• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of professional experience, or a Master's degree and 6 years of professional experience, or a PhD and 3 years of professional experience, or an Associate's degree and 10 years of professional experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent and 12 years of professional experience.
• 5 plus years of hands‑on cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years focused on cloud financial management (FinOps).
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with FinOps Foundation Best Practices for cloud and AI including Tokenomics, FOCUS and tagging strategies.
• Demonstrated experience managing AWS cost attribution, budgets, and financial reporting in a multi-account, multi-environment AWS Organization.
• Proven 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, 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 ability to present 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 of the following certifications (or able to obtain with 90 days):
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• FinOps Certified Engineer
• FinOps Certified AI Value

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with FinOps for AI/ML cost management (token metering, inference optimization).
• Familiarity with Databricks cluster cost governance and workspace administration.
• Familiarity with AWS Organizations, tag policies, and Service Control Policies (SCPs).
• Familiarity with AWS compute services: EC2, Lambda, Fargate, ECS/EKS, and associated cost drivers.
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines and medallion-architecture cost considerations.
• Experience with 3rd party cloud financial management tools such as IBM Cloudability, Flexera.
• Prior experience on a DOI, USGS, or other Department of Interior program.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum delivery environment using GitLab or Atlassian (Jira/Confluence).
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-37 (RMF), or NIST SP 800-64 (SDLC security).
• Experience with cloud governance frameworks in multi‑AZ/multi‑region AWS deployments.
• Background in data engineering or analytics platforms (Databricks, AWS Glue, or similar).
• Familiarity with federal acquisition regulations, particularly reporting and notification requirements under T&M contract vehicles.

Details

Target Salary Range: $86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

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