IBM Apptio Administrator

Senior IBM Apptio & Cloudability Administrator
TBM / FinOps Administrator

Clearance: Active Secret required
Position Type: Direct Hire/Permanent/Full-Time
Location: Remote (w/ occasional travel to Tampa, FL)
Salary Range: $135,000 to $155,000 based on experience

Position Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior IBM Apptio & Cloudability Administrator to support a growing federal technology program. This individual will serve in the combined roles of Technology Business Management Administrator and Cloudability Administrator, becoming the primary hands-on administrator and subject matter expert for the customer s IBM Apptio Costing, Planning, and Cloudability SaaS environment.
This is a customer-facing position working closely with customer stakeholders, implementation partners, and IBM Professional Services throughout an approximately 11-month implementation. Following implementation, the selected individual will assume long-term responsibility for administration, operation, reporting, and continuous improvement of the environment. As additional mission customers, applications, cloud workloads, and services are onboarded, the scope and importance of the TBM and FinOps function are expected to grow. This role offers the opportunity to become the long-term technical and functional lead for Technology Business Management, IT financial management, and FinOps.

Required Qualifications
Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience administering IBM Apptio SaaS solutions.
Demonstrated production administration experience with IBM Apptio Costing / Cost Transparency.
Hands-on experience with IBM Apptio Planning and IBM Apptio Cloudability.
Strong understanding of the Technology Business Management framework and Apptio TBM Unified Model (ATUM).
Strong understanding of FinOps principles and cloud financial management.
Experience developing and maintaining IT cost models, allocation methodologies, showback or chargeback reporting, and financial dashboards.
Experience with cloud cost and usage data, preferably AWS.
Experience acquiring, normalizing, reconciling, and validating financial and operational data from multiple enterprise data sources.
Experience maintaining Apptio data integrations, data models, reporting, and recurring operational processes.
Ability to work directly with financial personnel, cloud engineers, application teams, program managers, and executive stakeholders.
Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and customer-facing skills.

Highly Preferred Qualifications
Experience administering Federal or FedRAMP-authorized versions of IBM Apptio and Cloudability.
Experience supporting IBM Apptio within a Department of Defense or other U.S. Federal Government environment.
Experience with AWS GovCloud billing, account structures, cost allocation, and tagging.
Experience with Apptio Datalink, including configuration and maintenance of automated data integrations.
Experience implementing or maintaining customer-facing showback and chargeback models.
Experience with application, service, and infrastructure Total Cost of Ownership modeling.
IBM Apptio, TBM Council, or FinOps Foundation certifications.
Experience supporting a shared-services, managed-services, cloud-hosting, or multi-customer environment.

Responsibilities During Implementation
Participate in the IBM Apptio and Cloudability implementation from project kickoff through production transition.
Serve as the primary technical and functional resource for Apptio and Cloudability.
Work directly with IBM Professional Services during discovery, design, configuration, testing, validation, enablement, and transition activities.
Coordinate with customer subject matter experts to acquire required financial, operational, organizational, and cloud data.
Review and validate data for completeness, accuracy, and suitability for use within Apptio.
Validate IBM-configured data models, mappings, allocation methodologies, calculations, dashboards, and reports.
Participate in configuration and validation of Apptio Costing, Planning, Cloudability, TCO, showback, and future chargeback capabilities.
Participate in FinOps use-case configuration including cost allocation, rightsizing, anomaly detection, commitments, budgeting, and forecasting.
Participate in Datalink configuration and learn to independently configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Datalink connectors.
Review, maintain, and ultimately assume ownership of operational runbooks and related system documentation.
Support production promotion, operational-readiness activities, and transition to ongoing operations.

Operational Sustainment Responsibilities
Administer Apptio Costing, Planning, and Cloudability.
Monitor and maintain recurring data loads and Datalink integrations.
Validate and reconcile financial, operational, and cloud data.
Maintain ATUM mappings, organizational structures, allocation rules, cost models, and TCO models.
Produce and maintain showback and chargeback reporting.
Support recurring financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
Maintain dashboards and management reporting.
Administer Cloudability FinOps reporting and analytics, including AWS consumption trends, cost anomalies, rightsizing opportunities, and commitment utilization.
Work with application and cloud teams to explain consumption and identify optimization opportunities.
Manage users, permissions, administrative configurations, documentation, and configuration records.
Coordinate issues and enhancements with IBM Support and IBM Customer Success.
Support audits and financial-data traceability as required.
Recommend enhancements to the program s TBM, ITFM, and FinOps practices.

Growth Responsibilities
Onboard new mission customers into Apptio and Cloudability.
Incorporate new AWS accounts, applications, services, and workloads into the financial model.
Develop customer-specific showback and chargeback reporting.
Incorporate additional labor, vendor, software, infrastructure, and service costs.
Create and maintain additional Datalink integrations.
Expand allocation models, TCO modeling, service rates, and consumption-based charging methodologies.
Support increasingly sophisticated budgeting and forecasting.
Expand FinOps governance as AWS consumption increases.
Identify opportunities for cost avoidance and optimization.
Support leadership with financial analytics and decision-support information.

Why This Opportunity
Long-term role supporting a growing federal technology program, not a short-term implementation assignment.
Opportunity to become one of the individuals with the deepest understanding of the customer s financial and technology operating model.
High-impact position at the intersection of TBM, IT financial management, FinOps, cloud cost management, and federal technology operations.
Customer-facing role with visibility across financial, technical, program, and executive stakeholders.

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