Senior IBM Apptio & Cloudability Administrator

QBE Federal; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Disability Insurance

Retirement and Savings

Learning and Development

Wellness programs

Job summary

QBE, LLC is seeking a Senior IBM Apptio & Cloudability Administrator embedded with the Operation Stormbreaker team to lead TBM and FinOps administration for MCCS. You will manage IBM Apptio Costing, Planning and Cloudability SaaS, partnering with MCCS, G2IT, Raven Solutions and IBM PS to implement and optimize the environment.

The role requires strong security clearance, deep Apptio expertise, cloud cost management, and the ability to communicate with financial and technical stakeholders to

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
• Minimum 5 years hands-on administering IBM Apptio SaaS solutions.
• Experience with IBM Apptio Costing/Cost Transparency.
• Hands-on experience with IBM Apptio Planning.
• Hands-on administration experience with IBM Apptio Cloudability.
• Understanding of TBM framework and ATUM.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud financial management.
• Experience modeling IT costs, allocations, showback or chargeback.
• Experience with cloud cost data, preferably AWS.
• Ability to collaborate with finance, cloud engineers, and program managers.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation and customer-facing skills.

Skills

Security clearance

5+ years exp

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Documentation

Customer-facing

Tools

IBM Apptio SaaS

IBM Apptio Costing

IBM Apptio Planning

IBM Apptio Cloudability

Apptio Datalink

AWS cost data

Job description

About QBE, LLC

QBE, LLC is a mission-focused technology and security solutions provider supporting defense and federal customers worldwide. We deliver high-impact capabilities where precision, accountability, and technical excellence directly support national-level objectives.

QBE is seeking a highly experienced Senior IBM Apptio & Cloudability Administrator to support U.S. Marine Corps Community Services' Operation Stormbreaker program.

This individual will serve in the combined roles of Technology Business Management Administrator (TBMA) and Cloudability Administrator and will become 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 embedded with the Operation Stormbreaker team. The selected individual will work closely with MCCS, G2IT, Raven Solutions and IBM Professional Services throughout an approximately 11-month implementation and will subsequently assume long‑term responsibility for administration, operation and continuous improvement of the environment.

Operation Stormbreaker is a dynamic and growing Federal technology program. As additional mission customers, applications, cloud workloads and services are onboarded to Stormbreaker, the scope and importance of the TBM and FinOps function are expected to grow substantially. This position is intended to evolve with the program and offers the opportunity to become Stormbreaker's long‑term technical and functional lead for Technology Business Management, IT financial management and FinOps.

Requirements

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.
• Hands‑on administration experience with 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 the Federal/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 certifications.
• TBM Council certification.
• FinOps Foundation certification.
• Sec+ or CISSP certification.
• Experience supporting a shared‑services, managed‑services, cloud‑hosting or multi‑customer environment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

QBE, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

The projected compensation range for this position is $140,000.00 - $160,000.00. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (for remote opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, QBE invests in its employees beyond just compensation. QBE's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short‑term and long‑term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.