FinOps Operational Cost Control, Director

9 hours, 6 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
501-1000
Founded 2013
$730M raised

Description

  • Build cost-transparency reporting and dashboards for unit economics and cost drivers by product, team, and workload.
  • Partner with engineering to identify and deliver cloud cost-saving initiatives, including rightsizing, reserved capacity, architecture changes, and non-production environment efficiency.
  • Establish cost governance for AI/GPU compute and security telemetry pipelines, including data retention and lifecycle decisions with Security and Compliance.
  • Manage cost and pricing tradeoffs across multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure, including data transfer, residency, and compliance costs.
  • Translate infrastructure spend into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics that inform pricing and competitive strategy.
  • Maintain a regular cadence with engineering leadership to drive cost initiatives to completion and report realized savings.
  • Embed with engineering teams to establish cost-aware architecture patterns, automated tagging hygiene, and recurring cost reviews.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or operational cost management.
  • Proven experience leading enterprise-wide cost initiatives and influencing cross-functional leaders.
  • Demonstrated success reducing cloud or hosting spend at scale in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Strong understanding of unit economics and ability to translate infrastructure costs into actionable business and finance metrics.
  • Experience building governance processes and accountability across Finance, Product, and Engineering leadership.
  • Ability to operate autonomously in a highly visible role.
  • Experience optimizing GPU/AI compute costs and/or high-volume data pipeline costs.
  • Deep hands-on familiarity with multi-cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, and Azure, plus large-scale telemetry or data-ingestion pipelines.
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) certification or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • Familiarity with the FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) framework.

Benefits

  • U.S. annual base salary range of $172,000–$215,000, with offers based on location, experience, and education.
  • Extra paid days off for well-being.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with a 3% company match.
  • Maternity and parental leave.
  • Mental health support for employees and their families through Modern Health.
  • Full health benefits for employees and their families.
  • Remote work arrangement.

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