[Hiring] Senior Cloud Finance Engineer @Peraton

Role Description

Peraton is currently seeking skilled and qualified candidates for our Senior Cloud Finance Engineer for the DOL ITOM program. This position will be responsible for cloud architectural reviews to provide analysis and insight in preparing cost estimates for cloud resources.

• Architectural Reviews & Cost Estimation: Participate in cloud architectural reviews to provide financial insights and prepare accurate cost estimates for cloud resources, ensuring alignment with budgetary constraints and business objectives.
• Detailed Monthly Reporting: Develop and deliver comprehensive monthly financial reports, detailing cloud expenditure, usage trends, and cost optimization opportunities.
• Chargeback Models: Design and implement chargeback models to allocate cloud costs to appropriate business units, ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Fiscal Year Projections & Burndown: Create detailed fiscal year financial projections for cloud spending and maintain burndown charts to track budget utilization and forecast future needs.
• Cost Optimization: Identify opportunities for cost savings, recommend optimization strategies, and collaborate with engineering teams to implement cost-effective solutions.
• Financial Analysis: Conduct in-depth financial analysis of cloud spending patterns, providing insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with finance, IT, and engineering teams to align cloud financial strategies with organizational goals.
• Policy & Compliance: Ensure compliance with financial policies, cloud governance frameworks, and industry best practices.
• Tool Utilization: Leverage cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Google Cloud Billing) and Microsoft Excel to monitor, analyze, and report on cloud expenditures.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree with 8+ years experience, master's degree with 6+ years experience or high school diploma/GED with 12+ years related experience.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must have ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• 5+ years of experience in financial or business analysis, with at least 3 years focused on cloud cost management.
• Proven experience in preparing cost estimates for cloud resources and participating in architectural reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to create chargeback models and fiscal year projections.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, design, and networking related to cloud hosted applications.
• Experience building and modifying complex Excel workbooks and formulas (experience with VBA is not required but understanding of scripting and object-oriented programming encouraged).

Company Description

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 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.