Lead Cloud Economist - FinOps

At Arctic Wolf, we're not just navigating the cybersecurity landscape - we're redefining it. Our global team of dedicated Pack members is driving innovation and setting new industry standards every day. Our impact speaks for itself: we've earned recognition on the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fortune Future 50, and Fortune Cyber 60 lists, and we recently took home the 2024 CRN Products of the Year award. We’re proud to be named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Services and earning a Customers' Choice distinction from Gartner Peer Insights. Our Aurora Platform also received CRN’s Products of the Year award in the inaugural Security Operations Platform category. Join a company that’s not only leading, but also shaping, the future of security operations. 

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Lead Cloud Economist be part of making this/that happen.  

The Lead Cloud Economist will contribute to our Financial Operations (FinOps) department by supporting initiatives that deliver cost visibility, governance, and insights into the operation of our globally scaled systems. These systems process hundreds of billions of events daily and continue to grow exponentially, making it critical to understand and manage the cost drivers behind our cloud infrastructure.

By leveraging expertise in cloud cost reporting, data analysis, and AWS hosting services, the analyst will empower stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Finance—from individual contributors to C-level executives—to make informed, data-driven decisions that optimize cloud spend and support operational efficiency.

In this role, you get to

• Cost Analysis and Optimization: Conduct in-depth analyses of cloud spend across services and environments to identify cost-saving opportunities and recommend optimizations.

• Financial Modeling: Develop predictive financial models to project cloud spend based on usage trends, application growth, and strategic initiatives.

• Spend Analysis: Utilize tools like AWS QuickSight, CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer to track, analyze, and project spend for various breakdowns of cloud spend.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with R&D, finance, and business teams to align cloud cost initiatives with organizational goals and operational requirements.

• Cost Anomaly Management: Own cost anomaly detection, alerting, and response processes, partnering with engineering teams to confirm root causes and validate resolutions.

• Forecasting: Partner with finance teams to develop cost forecasts and projections, compare forecasts to actual spend and understand causes where there are differences.

• Savings Plan Management: Oversee commitment-based discounts (CSPs, RIs, etc.), managing procurement, monitoring usage, and optimizing renewals.

• Policy Creation and Compliance Oversight: Audit and enforce comprehensive cloud cost governance policies, ensuring adherence across business units and instilling cost-conscious practices.

• Continuous Improvement: Iterate on cost management processes by implementing new tools, refining existing workflows, and incorporating feedback to keep pace with evolving cloud technologies and usage patterns.

• Team Advocate: Act as a team representative in cross-functional initiatives.

• Reporting: Maintain and administer our cloud cost reporting platform.

• Commitment Tracking: Manage cloud vendor discount plan commitments and purchases.

You will be successful in this role if you have

• Fluent in data, finance, and tech.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills and a proactive nature.

• Strong analytical skills with experience using data analysis tools.

• Have experience working with BI tools like Quicksight (preferred), Tableau, Power BI, or Superset.

• Practical knowledge and experience with AWS products and services, pricing models and cost management capabilities.

• Proficient in gathering information from various sources, combining, analyzing, presenting the results and linking them to the larger context and business outcomes.

• Strong attention to detail, ability to identify discrepancies and outliers.

• Experience designing reporting and monitoring to ensure awareness of cost trends and drivers.

• Have developed and maintained complex models to explain and accurately predict cost.

• Experience in cloud expense reporting and management using FinOps disciplines within a cloud platform.

• Working Python and SQL knowledge preferred.

• Bonus: Experience with cloud infrastructure capacity planning and rightsizing.

  
Arctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. Arctic Wolf is committed to fostering a welcoming, accessible, respectful, and inclusive environment ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. As such, we strive to make our entire employee experience as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for candidates and employees with disabilities and/or other specific needs where possible. Please let us know if you require any accommodations by emailing recruiting@arcticwolf.com.

Security Requirements 

• Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWN’s Information Security policies, standards, processes and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of AWN business information (in accordance with our employee handbook and corporate policies).

• Background checks are required for this position. 

• This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”).  Please note that, if applicable, an offer for employment will be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export control laws and regulations