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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.\nPeraton 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.\nWork Location: Remote\nWhat You Will Do:\nProduce monthly FinOps reports including cloud and AI consumption forecasts vs. actuals, unit economics, and Government-facing chargeback views aligned to contract deliverables.\nConfigure and manage AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Cost Anomaly Detection, and Trusted Advisor to monitor spending, identify anomalies, and enforce financial guardrails.\nDevelop and maintain quarterly rightsizing recommendation packages, identifying underutilized or over-provisioned resources and presenting actionable optimization strategies to Government stakeholders.\nImplement and enforce auto-suspend policies for non-production environments to reduce idle consumption costs, as directed by the customer.\nManage AI/ML cost tracking for Amazon Bedrock LLM inference and token consumption, applying FinOps for AI disciplines.\nIssue Limitation of Funds notifications to the Contracting Officer at the 75% consumption threshold and provide 60-day advance warning before funding exhaustion.\nMaintain compliance with FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, and all applicable DOI security and financial policies.\nComplete mandatory annual DOI IT Security Awareness Training and execute required DOI Rules of Behavior and non-disclosure agreements.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\nU.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States.\nMust perform all work within the United States; no international work permitted under this contract.\nBachelor’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.\n5 plus years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years focused on cloud financial management (FinOps).\nDemonstrated knowledge and experience with FinOps Foundation Best Practices for cloud and AI including Tokenomics, FOCUS and tagging strategies.\nDemonstrated experience managing AWS cost attribution, budgets, and financial reporting in a multi-account, multi-environment AWS Organization.\nProven ability to build and deliver recurring cloud consumption reports and cost optimization deliverables for Government or enterprise clients.\nAdvanced proficiency with AWS Cost Management tools: Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Trusted Advisor.\nUnderstanding of Amazon Bedrock or other LLM/AI token-based cost models.\nExperience with Databricks or similar data platform cost management.\nProficiency in reporting tools and ability to present financial data clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nExperience supporting U.S. federal government programs with FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST SP 800-53 compliance requirements.\nOne or more of the following certifications (or able to obtain with 90 days):\nAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional.\nAWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.\nFinOps Certified Engineer\nFinOps Certified AI Value\nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience with FinOps for AI/ML cost management (token metering, inference optimization).\nFamiliarity with Databricks cluster cost governance and workspace administration.\nFamiliarity with AWS Organizations, tag policies, and Service Control Policies (SCPs).\nFamiliarity with AWS compute services: EC2, Lambda, Fargate, ECS/EKS, and associated cost drivers.\nFamiliarity with ETL pipelines and medallion-architecture cost considerations.\nExperience with 3rd party cloud financial management tools such as IBM Cloudability, Flexera.\nPrior experience on a DOI, USGS, or other Department of Interior program.\nExperience working in an Agile/Scrum delivery environment using GitLab or Atlassian (Jira/Confluence).\nKnowledge of NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-37 (RMF), or NIST SP 800-64 (SDLC security).\nExperience with cloud governance frameworks in multi-AZ/multi-region AWS deployments.\nBackground in data engineering or analytics platforms (Databricks, AWS Glue, or similar).\nFamiliarity with federal acquisition regulations, particularly reporting and notification requirements under T&M contract vehicles.\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton 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 do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\nTarget Salary Range\n$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. 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