Financial Operations (FinOps) Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Cloud

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Development, Cost Management, IT Cost Optimization

Certifications:

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Financial Operations (FinOps/Cloud) Engineer supporting CMS and their Hybrid Cloud application teams to ensure value is achieved through adoption of FinOps methods, processes, and tools. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Financial Operations (FinOps/Cloud) Engineer our work depends on promoting FinOps principles and delivering tools for CMS and Application teams to use.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Perform and/or support basic cost management engineering changes to cloud architecture to support application optimization and customer enablement.
• Perform cloud cost management that includes cost allocation strategies and governance model, cost optimization lifecycle and show back dashboarding, custom alerting and automation. 
• Work directly with AWS and MS Azure billing, while collaborating with engineering, product, and finance teams to provide deeper meaning to cost and usage data
• Be a trusted liaison between engineering and finance; helping finance understand the cost impacts of engineering operational decisions and helping engineering implement cost best practices throughout their stack.
• Provide stakeholders in Engineering and Product with tools to develop and measure cost related insights, metrics, and KPIs to help them better understand their products and how to build them more efficiently and minimize unusual consumption.
• Promote the FinOps principles which are a combination of systems, best practices, and culture designed to increase our company’s ability to understand cloud costs and manage trade-offs.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: Relevant and related technical training, certification(s), or degree.
• Required Experience: 8+ years of experience in cloud operations or system administration. Including 3 to 5 years of experience in Cloud, with experience as a FinOps practitioner.
• Required Technical Skills: Experience working with detailed billing statements from cloud providers and dedicated tools like Apptio Cloudability, BigQuery, Datastudio, Lambda/Cloud Functions with APIs; Understanding of public cloud architecture, main services, workload types (AWS and/or MS Azure); Familiarity with Agile methodology; Experience in JIRA and Confluence
• Security Clearance Level: None
• Required Skills and Abilities: Good customer service and communication skills, to include presenting to all levels of leadership; Must have good problem solving skills
• Preferred Skills: DMV residents preferred; Deep understanding of cost management optimization/analysis and FinOps principles
• Location: 100% Remote USA; Must be willing to travel occasionally to the MD/VA/DC area on an as needed basis.
• Working Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5:30pm eastern time. All resources on the program must support occasional incident/issue during non-core business hours.
• US Residency: Applicants shall have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior to submitting an application for a Federal ID Card.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE: 

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $127,500 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class. Apply