Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the leading authority for financial operations within a multi-environment AWS cloud platform, catering to software developers, business analysts, and Government personnel.

• Take ownership of comprehensive cloud cost management, overseeing everything from consumption forecasting to rightsizing recommendations and budget enforcement.

• Generate monthly FinOps reports that compare cloud and AI consumption forecasts against actuals, including unit economics and chargeback views for Government stakeholders.

• Set up and oversee AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Cost Anomaly Detection, and Trusted Advisor.

• Create and sustain quarterly rightsizing recommendation packages, presenting optimization strategies to Government stakeholders.

• Enforce and implement auto-suspend policies for non-production environments as directed by the client.

• Track AI/ML costs associated with Amazon Bedrock LLM inference and token usage.

• Issue Limitation of Funds notifications upon reaching the 75% consumption threshold and provide a 60-day advance notice before funding depletion.

• Ensure compliance with FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, and relevant DOI security and financial regulations.

• Complete annual DOI IT Security Awareness Training and adhere to required DOI Rules of Behavior and non-disclosure agreements.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is mandatory.

• Must be capable of obtaining and maintaining a Public Trust clearance.

• All work must be conducted within the United States; international work is not 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.

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years dedicated to cloud financial management (FinOps).

• Familiarity with FinOps Foundation best practices for cloud and AI, including Tokenomics, FOCUS, and tagging strategies.

• Experience in managing AWS cost attribution, budgets, and financial reporting within a multi-account, multi-environment AWS Organization.

• Capability to produce and deliver recurring cloud consumption reports and cost optimization outputs for Government or enterprise clients.

• Advanced skills 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.

• Proficient in reporting tools and presenting financial data effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience supporting U.S. federal government programs conforming to FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST SP 800-53 compliance requirements.

• One or more required certifications, or the 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 qualifications include 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 pay.

• Shift differential may be available.

• Discretionary bonuses may be offered.