FinOps Cloud Manager

Description

Shield is a global startup, with offices in TLV, NYC, LDN, and LIS.

We’re rapidly growing and looking for another important piece of the puzzle.

Is it you?

This role is responsible for leading the FinOps practice across Shield Financial Compliance, ensuring optimal use of cloud resources, managing cost predictability, and maintaining financial discipline across all business units. The specialist will own and evolve the internal product pricing calculator and provide continuous insight into the expected and actual cost structure of Shield's AWS-hosted, Kubernetes-based multi-tenant architecture.

This is a hybrid technical-financial role requiring advanced understanding of cloud architecture and pricing models, alongside financial acumen for forecasting, budgeting, modeling, and performance reporting.

Let’s Get Down To Business

What you’ll do:

• Product Pricing Ownership
• Maintain and evolve the internal AWS product pricing calculator.
• Translate complex Kubernetes deployment models and service configurations (e.g., OpenSearch, EKS, data transfer patterns) into actionable cost models.
• Incorporate cost variability into pricing decisions, including compute, storage, cross-region transfers, and scaling dynamics.
• Work with the CTO to align technical design with pricing logic and cost structure.
• Cloud Cost Management and Optimization
• Monitor real-time cloud consumption data across Shield’s environments (POC, production, demo, development).
• Identify inefficiencies and over-provisioning, recommend rightsizing and reserved instance/savings plans strategies.
• Set and enforce budgets per business unit, project, or environment.
• Design and implement alerts, dashboards, and reporting in tools such as Anodot, AWS Cost Explorer, CloudWatch, or custom BI tools.
• FinOps Culture Champion
• Act as the central cost optimization authority across CloudOps, DevOps, Delivery, and R&D teams.
• Run bi-weekly/quarterly cost review cadences and publish cost health dashboards.
• Educate teams on cost-efficient architecture, usage of spot instances, caching, storage lifecycle rules, etc.
• Promote accountability by assigning cost KPIs and budget adherence metrics.
• Management Reporting and KPI Tracking
• Generate executive-level insights and forecasts on cloud cost trends, anomalies, and risks.
• Define and report against key FinOps KPIs such as cost/unit, cost of service, cost per deployment, budget variance, forecast accuracy.
• Provide decision-making support to management based on real-time and retroactive data analysis.
  
  

Requirements

Experience and Skills:

• Deep understanding of AWS pricing and services: EKS, OpenSearch, S3, EC2, EBS, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, data transfer, VPC peering, and networking.
• Solid grasp of Kubernetes deployment patterns and multi-tenant architectures.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred), monitoring tools, and cost analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with anomaly detection systems, logging/observability platforms, and CI/CD cost implications.
• Proven experience in cost modeling, forecasting, and budget control in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with financial dashboards, reporting tools, or BI platforms (e.g., Anodot, PowerBI, Tableau).
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to simplify and present complex financial data.
• Prior experience supporting enterprise-level pricing and cost governance initiatives.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and collaborative mindset.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable driving change and instilling cost ownership across multiple teams.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent certification.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect / Advanced Networking or similar.
• Background in SaaS, compliance, or regulated environments is a plus.
  
  

Oh hey, you made it all the way here!

So, in case you were wondering, Shield is how compliance teams in financial services can finally read between the lines to see what their employee communications are really saying.

Our platform analyzes digital interactions to fight financial crimes and mitigate a toxic workplace environment.

Shield is a post Series B startup ($35M) with some of the largest financial organizations in the world as investors and customers.

Shielders listen more intently. Pay closer attention to the details. Make the extra effort. Care. It’s what we do at Shield every day. And not just for our customers, but for everyone we work with. It’s all about creating a world where people understand and trust each other.

Shield is set to do good in the world, we help protect market integrity and people’s financial assets.