[Hiring] FinOps Engineer @IBR

Role Description

The FinOps Engineer must be able to meet the key criteria below:

• Location: 100% remote. This is a United States based position, and candidates must reside in the continental United States to be eligible for employment. Must be able to travel to office headquarters located in Melbourne, FL as requested by program leadership to support program meetings and demos to leadership.
• Years’ Experience: 8+ years professional experience
• Education: Bachelor Degree in IT related field required
• Security Clearance: IBR is a federal contractor. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance issued by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This agency handles and adjudicates the security clearance process.
• NOTE: United States Citizenship is required as part of the eligibility criteria to be able to obtain this type of security clearance.
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Work Schedules: IBR promotes work-life balance by offering flexible scheduling options. Standard business hours are aligned to the Eastern Time Zone.

This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, expand your skills and experience, and contribute to next generation Ground Systems projects that support the U.S.A. and our allies. You will join a great team of talented professionals with world class technical expertise who take a collaborative approach to engineering and enjoy working together.

As a FinOps Engineer, you will bring your development engineering background to a space ground/satellite environment where you can make a broad impact to engineering projects that are critical to our customers. This position will be responsible for providing FinOps engineering support to track, analyze, and report on AWS cloud trends and spending forecasts. The candidate will require expertise in providing architectural input from a cloud cost, efficiency and operational perspective as well as be able to identify optimization opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Track, analyze, and report AWS cloud spend, usage trends, forecasts, and budget variance
• Prepare and present cost, usage, forecast, and optimization reporting to customers and management
• Develop dashboards, cost models, and recommendations to support technical and financial decisions
• Analyze Kubernetes/EKS utilization and recommend rightsizing, scaling, and optimization strategies
• Provide architectural input from a cloud cost, efficiency, reliability, and operational perspective
• Identify optimization opportunities across compute, storage, networking, logging, and managed services
• Work with development, operations, platform, and security teams to improve cost efficiency and governance
• Implement and maintain tagging standards, cost allocation methods, and budget guardrails
• Monitor and optimize use of cost tools such as Savings Plans, Reserved Instances and possible Spot and autoscaling strategies
• Maintain documentation, procedures, and standards for cloud financial operation

Qualifications

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in IT related field
• 8+ years professional experience
• Experience with AWS cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and billing analysis
• Experience supporting AWS production environments
• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS and containerized workloads
• Experience with reporting, dashboards, and cost analysis tools
• Experience working across engineering, operations, and security teams
• Familiarity with cloud governance and Infrastructure as Code practices
• Experience with AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, CID, Athena, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer, and CloudWatch
• Experience with third-party FinOps or cloud cost management platforms
• Experience optimizing EKS clusters for utilization and cost efficiency
• Knowledge of tagging strategy, chargeback/showback, and unit economics
• Experience with Python, SQL, or scripting for analysis and automation
• Familiarity with Helm, CI/CD pipelines, observability platforms, and AWS CDK
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or AWS certification preferred

Benefits

• Nationwide medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 3 weeks of Paid Time Off and 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• 401k matching
• Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability at no cost to our employees
• Supplemental insurance options
• Flexible spending accounts and Dependent Care spending accounts
• Wellness incentives
• Reimbursement for professional development and certifications
• Access to training assistance opportunities to support career growth and progression
• Hybrid and Remote work opportunities to support work-life balance

Application Deadline

Applications will be reviewed as received and accepted on a continuous basis until the position is filled. Early application is strongly encouraged.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

This role primarily involves sedentary work, in a workplace and/or home office environment. There are some physical demands associated with the role, including:

• Extended periods of sitting and working at a computer workstation.
• Occasional lifting and carrying of equipment or materials weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Occasional travel to client sites or meetings may be required.
• Work may need to be performed in a fast-paced environment requiring quick decision making.
• Flexible work arrangements may be available based on business needs.
• Will be exposed to a wide variety of clients in differing functions, personalities, and abilities.