Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is seeking a Cloud FinOps Analyst to support financial operations across a large, multi-tenant AWS environment. The role improves cloud cost visibility, accountability, forecasting, reporting, chargeback, governance, and optimization while partnering with finance, engineering, platform, and program teams.
Responsibilities
- Analyze utilization data from AWS Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, and CloudWatch 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 those recommendations rather than simply delivering a report
- Identify idle, orphaned, and overprovisioned resources, and coordinate recurring remediation with the appropriate engineering and platform teams
- 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 effective snapshot management
- Establish a continuous optimization process that incorporates cost efficiency into day-to-day cloud operations rather than addressing it only after costs increase
- Build and maintain consolidated monthly cost reports covering AWS spend, usage trends, unit economics, and optimization opportunities across accounts, business units, and programs
- Design and manage chargeback and showback models that allocate cloud costs to the appropriate business units with clear, transparent, and defensible cost attribution
- Implement and enforce a consistent cost-allocation tagging strategy across the AWS estate, and drive remediation of untagged or incorrectly tagged resources
- Develop executive dashboards and program-level scorecards using AWS Cost and Usage Reports to provide clear visibility into cloud spending and performance
- Perform root-cause analysis on cost anomalies and unexpected spending variances, and communicate findings and recommended actions clearly to both finance and engineering audiences
- Support cost governance and reporting across a multi-account AWS Organizations environment spanning commercial and GovCloud accounts under consolidated billing
- Develop fiscal-year cloud spend projections and monthly burn-rate views, and update forecasts as consumption, program scope, and pricing change
- Model the expected cost impact of architectural changes, migrations, and new workload onboarding before financial or engineering commitments are made
- Monitor budget utilization against plan, identify variances early, and recommend corrective actions to keep programs on track
- Support annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasts, and business-case development for cloud investments
- Configure and manage AWS Budgets and Cost Anomaly Detection thresholds, including the associated alerting, investigation, and response processes
- Participate in cloud architecture reviews and provide cost estimates and financial guidance so teams understand the financial impact of design decisions before implementation
- 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 with organizational objectives and establish shared accountability for cloud spend
- Advance FinOps maturity across the organization through training, playbooks, standardized processes, and recurring cost-management reviews
- Automate recurring cost analysis, reporting, and tag-hygiene activities using Python or SQL to reduce manual effort and improve the scalability and consistency of FinOps operations
Skills
- 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
- Remote work arrangement
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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