Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst

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. Drive investigations of spend incidents. Build capabilities to track unit economics of the product portfolio. Partner with product feature teams to drive visibility on metrics such as cost per customer, per operation, per API request, and AI token usage rates. Work with Infra teams on classification of infrastructure and utilization metrics. What You’ll Bring (Qualifications) Significant experience as a FinOps cloud spend analyst on a major cloud provider. Deep familiarity with cost and usage data and SQL based billing analysis, preferably on AWS. Strong exploratory data analysis skills in SQL. Ability to analyze and explore large, complex billing datasets. Experienced in analysis of a cloud vendor’s billing data in SQL. Able to independently investigate anomalies, identify cost drivers, and answer questions on spend. Experience in a FinOps role at a B2B SaaS company with a multi-tenant architecture. Familiarity with the challenge of attributing shared infrastructure costs to specific customers or product features. Must have built cost reporting and dashboards for spend visibility. Experience in BI tooling such as AWS QuickSight, GCP Data Studio, Tableau, Looker, or similar. Spreadsheet skills. Ability to build forecasting models in Excel/Google Sheets. Experience working with Engineering on tagging and labelling and driving cost visibility into development processes. Familiarity with AWS/GCP/Azure savings mechanisms — Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, etc. Able to independently spend anomaly investigations, document findings, and make well defined clear recommendations. Strong communication skills. Ability to present spend findings to both Engineering and Finance leaders. Ability to translate and map between infrastructure details and business value. Nice to Haves FinOps Foundation certification (FOCP or practitioner level) or equivalent demonstrated knowledge of FinOps frameworks and lifecycle. Perks of Horizon3.ai Inclusive Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career development opportunities. Innovative Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. Hybrid & Remote Work: We embrace a mix of remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location, including our Chicago office, where some roles require regular in-office presence. Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary, equity and benefits. Our benefits include health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave. Occasional Business Travel Required This position is remote, but this job may require up to 5% of travel to be successful. Compensation and Values At Horizon3, we believe that our people are our greatest asset, and our compensation philosophy reflects this core value. We are committed to fostering an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and rewarded for their contributions. Our compensation structure is designed to be fair, competitive, and transparent, ensuring that every team member is recognized and compensated equitably across roles, levels, and locations. In accordance with various State’s transparency regulations, we provide the following salary range information for this position: Base salary range: $240,570 - $297,000 annually . The exact salary will be determined based on the selected candidate’s location, qualifications, experience, and relevant skills. Additional compensation: All full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options. You Belong Here Horizon3 is not just an equal opportunity employer - we are a community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental principles of our culture and success. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, hair length or any other legally protected status by law. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion means we strive to attract, develop, and retain a workforce that reflects the varied communities we serve. We believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and strengthen our ability to create cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. At Horizon3, every team member is valued and supported in an environment that encourages personal and professional growth. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we encourage all qualified individuals to apply. Come be a part of Horizon3, where your unique contributions are recognized, and your potential is limitless. Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Application Note In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.