TELECOMMUTE FinOps Engineer

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., · 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.

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., · 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.