Director of Infrastructure

3 hours, 27 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
DevOps and Infrastructure
Sysdig

Sysdig

Sysdig provides advanced security solutions for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments, enabling organizations to gain visibility and context through runtime insights to proactively prevent cyber attacks.

IT Services
251-1K
Founded 2013
$730M raised

Description

  • Own end-to-end cloud infrastructure strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, and OCI, including architecture, capacity planning, maintenance, resourcing, and vendor strategy.
  • Drive cloud cost optimization through rightsizing, committed spend, tagging, chargeback discipline, and waste reduction while maintaining reliability and performance.
  • Partner with executives to communicate infrastructure investments, tradeoffs, roadmaps, budgets, and planning decisions.
  • Lead build-versus-buy, multi-cloud, and centralization decisions, documenting and defending strategic tradeoffs.
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies with Security, Data, and Product Engineering teams to remove blockers and protect delivery timelines.
  • Build, mentor, and lead infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams, including coaching, performance reviews, and expectation setting.
  • Own infrastructure security, disaster recovery, compliance, GDPR considerations, and incident management for highly available platforms.
  • Review infrastructure-as-code and architecture, contributing hands-on when needed to unblock key milestones.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience, including 4+ years leading infrastructure strategy and budgets in distributed systems environments.
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives across matrixed organizations.
  • Demonstrated, measurable cloud cost optimization results.
  • Experience presenting to and influencing C-level executives using data-backed analysis.
  • Deep hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools and strong networking fundamentals.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native technologies.
  • Knowledge of scalable, high-performance, event-driven infrastructure and reusable cloud components.
  • Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant platforms and managing distributed or European teams; GDPR, data residency, or EU labor-law awareness is a plus.
  • People-management experience focused on coaching and developing engineers and managers; CNAPP or FinOps experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation range of €99,000–€124,000, with offers varying by location, experience, and education.
  • Additional days off for well-being.
  • Mental health support for employees and families through the Modern Health app.
  • Collective bargaining coverage under Italy’s CCNL Terziario-Confcommercio agreement.
  • Remote work opportunity.

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