Horizon3.ai

Engineering

PrincipalCloudFinOpsAnalyst

$175–250k ~AI est. United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst at Horizon3.ai. Skills: Cloud FinOps, Cost optimization, Spend visibility. Build spend visibility dashboards. Define tagging taxonomy”

Industry & Context.

Engineering
Problems you'll solve

Investigate anomalies; Identify cost drivers; Answer questions on spend; Spend anomaly investigations

Eligibility Requirements

Occasional Business Travel Required, Up to 5% travel

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Significant experience as FinOps cloud spend analyst, Deep familiarity with cost and usage data, SQL based billing analysis, Exploratory data analysis skills in SQL, Ability to analyze large, complex billing datasets, Experienced in analysis of cloud vendor billing data in SQL, Able to independently investigate anomalies, Able to identify cost drivers, Able to answer questions on spend, Experience in FinOps role at B2B SaaS company, Familiarity with attributing shared infrastructure costs, Must have built cost reporting and dashboards, Spreadsheet skills, Ability to build forecasting models in Excel/Google Sheets, Experience working with Engineering on tagging and labelling, Experience driving cost visibility into development processes, Able to independently spend anomaly investigations, Able to document findings, Able to make well defined clear recommendations, Ability to present spend findings to Engineering and Finance leaders, Ability to translate and map between infrastructure details and business value

Nice to Have

FinOps Foundation certification or equivalent knowledge, AWS QuickSight, GCP Data Studio, Tableau, Looker, or similar BI tooling experience, Familiarity with AWS/GCP/Azure savings mechanisms

What You'll Do.

Build spend visibility dashboards

Define tagging taxonomy

Identify tagging gaps

Improve tagging for reporting

Make cloud and AI spend billing data available

Automate export to Excel / Google Sheets and

Develop cloud spend forecast models

Incorporate sales forecasts into models

Incorporate product roadmap initiatives into models

Define spend alarms based on budgets and forecasts

Drive investigations of spend incidents

Build capabilities to track unit economics

Drive visibility on cost per customer

Drive visibility on cost per operation

Drive visibility on API request costs

Drive visibility on AI token usage rates

Classify infrastructure

Classify utilization metrics

Investigate anomalies

Identify cost drivers

Answer questions on spend

Make clear recommendations

Present spend findings to leaders

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Engineering infra teams; Partner with product teams; Partner with product feature teams; Work with Infra teams; Collaborate with Engineering; Collaborate with Finance leaders

Communication Scope

Present spend findings; Translate infrastructure details; Map infrastructure to business value

Full Job Description

Get to Know Us Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.  We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.   What You’ll Do We are looking for an experienced Cloud FinOps practitioner to provide visibility, allow H3 leadership to understand costs and margins of providing product features to customer, and make data-driven decisions to optimize cloud spend. You will: - Build spend visibility dashboards broken down by product, product feature, tenant, and team. Partner with Engineering infra and product teams to define tagging taxonomy, identify tagging gaps, and improve tagging to enable reporting. Make Cloud and AI spend billing data available in analytics and reporting tools, and with automated export to Excel / Google Sheets and finance systems. - Develop cloud spend forecast models that incorporate sales forecasts and product roadmap initiatives. - Define spend alarms based on budgets and forecasts

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