Cloud Governance & Automation Leader for FinOps & Security

Moneycorp; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical health insurance

Job summary

Moneycorp in London is seeking an experienced Cloud Governance & Automation Lead to build and lead a capability that makes governance automated, continual and evidence-based across FinOps, security and architecture compliance.

You will lead a lean service automation team, set strategy, and deliver automation that turns policy into measurable assurance while enabling internal customers to move fast with audit-ready evidence for regulators.

Qualifications

• FinOps expertise (cost control, tagging, unit economics, optimisation).
• Experience automating governance into measurable analytics.
• Proven delivery of cloud cost savings and optimisation outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and run automated compliance analytics across FinOps, Security and Architecture.
• Convert policies and regulatory requirements into codified checks with clear pass/fail outcomes.
• Deliver audit-ready evidence with trend reporting and insights.
• Monitor cost governance, security posture and architectural standards using automated measurement.
• Lead and develop a lean service automation team (2-3 engineers).
• Set technical direction, standards and delivery cadence.
• Operate the team as a product function (backlog, SLAs, stakeholder engagement).
• Champion DevOps culture: automation‑first, guardrails over manual approvals.
• Build automation to remove manual compliance, reporting and remediation effort.
• Develop APIs, services and data pipelines integrating cloud, security, identity and finance systems.
• Enable self‑service analytics and reporting for internal teams.
• Embed secure, zero‑trust patterns across automation and workflows.
• Own executive dashboards, scorecards and reporting outputs.
• Translate technical data into business and regulatory insights.
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Audit and Engineering to support governance and reporting.
• Define and evolve automation and compliance strategy.
• Establish policy‑as‑code and governance patterns.
• Recommend tools and platforms to improve cost, compliance and operational efficiency.
• Enable safe self‑service through guardrails and standards.

Skills

FinOps

Cost Governance

Automation

Cloud Governance

DevOps

SRE

Platform Engineering

Python

Go

C#

Data Pipelines

Dashboards

ETL/ELT

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Policy as code

RBAC

PIM

Cost Management

Resource Graph

Job description

Moneycorp in London is seeking an experienced Cloud Governance & Automation Lead to build and lead a capability that makes governance automated, continual and evidence-based across FinOps, security and architecture compliance.

You will lead a lean service automation team, set strategy, and deliver automation that turns policy into measurable assurance while enabling internal customers to move fast with audit-ready evidence for regulators.