FinOps Platform Support Engineer - Contingent

- Location: Washington DC

- Schedule: Full-Time

- Work Location: Telecommute

- Shift: Day Job

- Travel: No

- Minimum Clearance Required: Public Trust

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Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) is an innovative small business providing IT and management consulting services to the U.S. Federal Government and commercial clients. We have unique strengths in complex, cross-organizational solution analysis, design, development, implementation, and change management supporting enterprise requirements. Our team of professionals has deep consulting backgrounds supporting the unique needs of our clients. Our team members have proven experience leading strategic initiatives within the civilian Government agencies.

RCS is seeking a FinOps Platform Support Engineer to serve as a dedicated, full-time resource within the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's enterprise cloud management team, providing Kion Platinum Support for the Customer's Kion cloud enablement and FinOps platform. This role owns the platform end to end: full build-out, operationalization, Authority to Operate (ATO), and ongoing operations, maintenance, and FinOps engineering support. This is a high-visibility, mission-critical role supporting one of the most strategic cloud financial management programs in the federal government.

This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance with the Internal Revenue Service and to work remote in the Washington DC area.

What you will do:
Platform Build-Out & Deployment

- Lead the full build-out of the Customer's Kion platform environment, including network, compute, database, load balancing, DNS, and certificate components

- Deploy and configure the platform using AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks in alignment with Customer architecture and security requirements

- Integrate the platform with enterprise identity (SAML/SSO), logging, monitoring, and backup services

- Onboard and configure cloud accounts, subscriptions, and projects (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) into the Customer's platform environment

- Plan and execute platform version upgrades, patching, and environment sizing changes with minimal disruption to users

Operationalization, Administration & Maintenance

- Transition the platform from build to steady-state operations, including runbooks, SOPs, backup/restore procedures, and operational handoff documentation

- Administer the platform environment on a day-to-day basis, including OU hierarchy management, project lifecycle, and user provisioning

- Configure and maintain funding sources, budgets, spend plans, and cloud access roles (CARs) across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI

- Create and manage permission schemes, cloud rules, and Service Control Policies (SCPs) in alignment with agency governance requirements

- Maintain platform health, availability, and performance; identify issues proactively and coordinate remediation with vendor support as needed

ATO, Compliance & Governance

- Support the platform's Authority to Operate (ATO) effort, including System Security Plan (SSP) content, control implementation statements, diagrams, and evidence aligned to NIST SP 800-53 and Treasury security requirements

- Track and remediate security findings through Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms) and support continuous monitoring after authorization

- Create, manage, and monitor compliance checks and standards aligned to Treasury and federal policies

- Configure and deploy FinOps policies and tagging enforcement rules to govern resource spend and cloud usage

- Triage compliance findings, coordinate remediation tracking, and report status to agency stakeholders

FinOps Engineering

- Monitor, analyze, and report on cloud spend across all CSPs within the Customer's platform environment

- Build and maintain spend dashboards, drill-down views, and scheduled reports tailored to agency leadership, financial managers, and tenant organizations

- Configure an