Sr. Sales Engineer, Kubecost

Named a Leader in the 2024 by Forrester and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloudability, Apptio continues to push the boundaries of what's possible in IT financial management. Now, with the strength of IBM pushing us, we're poised for even greater growth-with exciting product evolutions ahead.

If you're ready to be part of a high-impact, high-visibility team at the forefront of digital transformation, this is your opportunity!

Your role and responsibilities

Partner with Sales to set customers up for success by discovering their unique technical needs and ensure product fit

Work directly with prospects and customers on POCs and implementation of Kubecost to solve key architecture questions and challenges

Become a specialist in our product features and troubleshoot them through testing and collaboration with others

Identify areas of improvement for our implementation and support ecosystem (ex. documentation, guides, open source tools, etc) to aid our customers

Communicate the value of Kubecost to prospects and customers-and how Kubecost can benefit them-through demos, conversations, and working sessions

Work directly with the founding team and senior engineers to influence the product and its roadmap

Contribute code where you see an opportunity

This role can be performed from anywhere in US

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Team player mindset that embraces the challenge of solving complex problems with both technical + soft skills

Experience with at least one of the main cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure)

Experience with Kubernetes; comfort with Kubernetes terminology and eagerness to learn more

Experience with or a general understanding with some of the following projects:

• Prometheus
• Clickhouse/DuckDB
• Grafana
• Rancher/Openshift
• Docker

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Comfortable communicating with customers and prospects via email, Slack, phone and video

Familiarity with general DevOps/FinOps practices

Ability to demo products to technical and non-technical audiences alike and articulate value to the full range of customer types

Preferred technical and professional experience

Knowledge of other FinOps tools (ex. Cloudability, Finout, Vantage.sh)

Experience with Cloud Billing APIs + Exports

Experience with FOCUS (FinOps)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

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This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.