FinOps Engineer

Location: 100% Remote. This is a United States based position, and candidates must reside in the continental United States to be eligible for employment.

Travel: 25%. Must be able to travel to office located in Melbourne, FL as requested by program leadership to support program meetings and demos to leadership.

Years’ Experience: 8+ years of professional experience.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT related field required.

Clearance: Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. United States Citizenship is required as part of the eligibility criteria to be able to obtain this type of security clearance.

Key Skills:

·       Experience with AWS cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and billing analysis.

·       Experience with Kubernetes/EKS and containerized workloads.

·       Experience with reporting, dashboards, and cost analysis tools.

·       Experience tracking, analyzing, and reporting AWS cloud spend, usage trends, forecasts, and budget variance.

·       Experience with third-party FinOps or cloud cost management platforms.

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.

About Sparibis

Sparibis LLC is a professional solution firm that Clients rely on to access the best talent to drive their business success.

Sparibis is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.