Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
The FinOps Engineer oversees cloud economics, financial governance, and operational efficiency within an Azure-based cloud development environment. This role bridges the gap between finance and engineering, ensuring our Microsoft Azure footprint remains lean, scalable, and optimized.
As the primary owner of the cloud governance strategy, the FinOps Engineer serves as a strategic advisor to development teams by leveraging Kion to design precise costing models, build automated budget enforcements, and provide actionable analytics in order to instill a culture of fiscal responsibility and cost-conscious engineering.
Key Responsibilities- Financial Governance & Platform Management
- Serve as the primary administrator and strategist for selecting and leveraging the financial management platform, utilizing its automated workflow engine to manage organizational units, enforce cloud guardrails, and streamline subscription provisioning
- Configure and manage financial enforcements to trigger alerts, pause spending, or apply automated remediations when thresholds are breached
- Ensure strict cloud tagging compliance across Azure resources by writing and implementing automated policy guardrails via the platform
- Azure Spend Optimization & Analysis
- Analyze complex Microsoft Azure billing structures, enterprise agreements, and usage patterns to identify anomalies, idle resources, and optimization targets
- Translate raw cloud data into high-fidelity costing models and executive-ready dashboards reflecting accurate unit economics
- U.S. citizen with active TS clearance and SCI eligibility
- FinOps domain expertise: 3+ years of experience in cloud financial management
- Financial management platform: Hands-on experience using a professional financial management platform for multi-account governance, financial tracking, or automated compliance
- Azure experience: Technical understanding of Azure cost management and billing
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Strong interpersonal skills to effectively engage with various stakeholders (customers, program managers, product managers, and senior leadership)
- Experience using evaluative technologies to inform senior-leader decisions
- Experience translating customer requirements into actionable user stories/features
- Experience breaking down large features into demonstrable and valuable milestones
- Experience prioritizing and delegating tasks for at least a team of 5 members
- U.S. citizen with active TS clearance and counterintelligence or fullscope polygraph
- FinOps domain expertise: 6+ years of experience in cloud financial management
This is a hybrid position with an expected 3-4 days onsite. Clarity Innovations strives to set consistent expectations and ensure a flexible and healthy work-life balance, but due to the position's nature and emergent customer needs, some weeks may exceed 3-4 days and others may require no onsite work. It will require a counterintelligence polygraph upon hiring if not already attained.
Salary Range: $123,000 - $337,000
Skills Required
- U.S. citizen with active Top Secret clearance and SCI eligibility
- 3+ years of FinOps or cloud financial management experience
- Hands-on experience with a professional financial management platform (Kion or similar) for multi-account governance and automated compliance
- Technical understanding of Azure cost management and billing
- Experience analyzing Azure billing structures, enterprise agreements, and usage patterns to identify optimization targets
- Experience configuring automated budget enforcements, alerts, remediations, and policy guardrails (including tagging compliance)
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills to engage stakeholders including program and product managers and senior leadership
- Experience translating customer requirements into user stories and breaking down features into milestones
- Experience prioritizing and delegating tasks for a team of at least five members
- 6+ years of FinOps or cloud financial management experience
- Active Top Secret clearance with counterintelligence or full-scope polygraph
Clarity Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Clarity and has not been reviewed or approved by Clarity.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered strong, with multiple references to “good” or “excellent” compensation. Salary snapshots for engineering and platform roles depict robust pay across multiple seniority levels.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside mental‑health support and wellness programs. The breadth of core offerings indicates comprehensive health support for individuals and families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions cover company holidays, PTO, and defined leaves such as parental, bereavement, and jury duty. This range of leave types supports common personal and family needs.
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What We Do
Clarity Innovations designs, develops, and deploys force-enhancing software that links human ingenuity to powerful computing and makes our country and our world a better, safer place. Our principles of servant leadership, mutual respect, and technological excellence enable us to thrive on the challenges of the digital frontline. Clarity is focused on helping the Government redefine its relationship with technology by encouraging the use of DevSecOps and Agile methodologies, small-teams constructs, and process automation. To create an atmosphere that embraces the challenges inherent in progress, we honor creativity and curiosity, supporting exploration and growth with modern tech stacks and methodologies. We are as much a family as we are a team, collectively engineering technology that improves the lives and work of the people who use it. We empower our people with the tools, training, and vision they need to outperform the competition.
