AWS Business Analyst

Koniag Technology Solutions a Koniag Government Services company is seeking an experienced AWS Business Analyst to support cloud service operations billing analysis and business process improvement for our government customers. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented professional with strong analytical and communication skills capable of bridging the gap between technical cloud environments and business objectives. The ability to obtain or maintain an active Secret clearance is required to support our government customer. We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health dental and vision insurance 401K with company matching flexible spending accounts paid holidays three weeks paid time off and AWS Business Analyst will play a key role in supporting cloud service operations by managing billing and invoicing activities tracking contract funding supporting acquisition efforts and working closely with both internal teams and federal clients to define requirements improve business processes and ensure alignment between AWS cloud service capabilities and customer business objectives. Principal responsibilities will include but are not limited to:Collect Cloud Service Provider (CSP) invoice documents and detailed billing reports ensuring accuracy and monthly CSP usage reports for program offices and stakeholders leveraging AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR).Track contract funding balances and billing periods of performance to ensure compliance and financial customer requests using AWS pricing calculators and other available tools and resources as in CSP and other acquisition proposal response content development as Program Office Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) documentation including creation tracking and build and improve business processes workflow efficiencies data collection methods and metrics necessary for measuring business with clients to define user requirements and discuss issues questions and project status on an ongoing AWS cloud system capabilities and how those capabilities can meet the clients business program initiatives and requirements to assist in the preparation of annual budget communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements delivering artifacts such as business requirements documents process flows and use cases as other incidental and related duties as required and Education and Experience:Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business Administration Information Technology or a related field from an accredited college or least five (5) years of experience in a related Information Technology least three (3) years of experience writing technical least three (3) years of experience in a client-facing role; federal clients Secret clearance or Skills and Competencies:Exceptional communication skills in English both written and oral and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical to understand basic contract terms and conditions related to contracting for cloud services including AWS-specific agreements and AWS GovCloud proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) core services pricing models and billing ability to collect analyze and present cloud billing and usage data in a clear and actionable manner utilizing AWS native tools such as AWS Cost Explorer AWS Budgets and Cost and Usage Reports (CUR).Ability to define problems collect data establish facts draw valid conclusions and recommend to take initiative manage own workload and assume responsibility for tasks with minimal to multi-task handle multiple concurrent projects and meet internal and client-driven preparing and managing business and technical documentation including MOAs requirements documents and process to work collaboratively in a team environment while also operating independently as with cloud acquisition processes and federal contracting Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) or related AWS Skills and Competencies:Familiarity with the State Department and the Managing State Projects (MSP) project with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).Experience with business process improvement or business process experience working directly with Federal Government working with other major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) such as Microsoft Azure or Google with AWS GovCloud and FedRAMP compliance Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race color religion creed ethnicity sex sexual orientation gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification) national origin or ancestry age disability citizenship military/veteran status marital status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment promotion wages benefits and all other privileges terms and conditions of company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. 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