[Hiring] Director of Infrastructure @Sysdig

Role Description

At Sysdig, we believe cloud security isn't a compromise - it's a promise. From the start, our mission has been clear: to help organizations secure innovation in the cloud, the right way.

What you will do:

• Infrastructure Strategy: Own the end-to-end cloud infrastructure strategy across our global footprint including architecture, resourcing, maintenance, capacity planning, and vendor strategy across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, IBM and OCI.
• Cost Optimization: Drive a continuous cost-optimization program - rightsizing, reserved/committed spend, tagging and chargeback discipline, and eliminating waste, while protecting reliability and performance for a large-scale, multi-tenant platform.
• Executive Partnership: Act as a key technical touchpoint for the executive team, translating infrastructure investment and tradeoffs into business terms, and presenting roadmaps that influence budget and planning decisions at the CTO/CFO level.
• Strategic Decision-Making: Make and defend build-vs-buy, multi-cloud vs single-cloud, and centralize-vs-federate decisions, owning the tradeoff reasoning even under incomplete information or shifting priorities.
• Dependency & Constraint Navigation: Masterfully manage complex cross-team dependencies with Security, Data, and Product Engineering, aggressively mitigating timeline shifts and infrastructure bandwidth constraints without sacrificing quality.
• Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing infrastructure/platform/SRE team; conduct performance reviews, provide routine coaching, and set individual expectations that balance career ambition with organizational goals.
• Risk & Resilience Posture: Own infrastructure risk end-to-end — security posture, disaster recovery, compliance (GDPR and other EU regulatory considerations), and incident management for high-availability, fault-tolerant platforms.
• Hands-on Engagement: Stay close to the metal by reviewing infrastructure-as-code and architecture developed by the team, jumping in hands-on when necessary to unblock milestones.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering experience, with 4+ years directly leading infrastructure strategy and budget in a distributed systems environment.
• Cross-Functional Track Record: Proven experience leading initiatives that span multiple departments, with a knack for unblocking bottlenecks and driving execution across matrixed organizations.
• Cost Optimization Rigor: A track record of measurable cost optimization you can back with real numbers (e.g., "reduced cloud spend by 30% while scaling traffic 2x"), not just FinOps principles in the abstract.
• Executive Communication: Demonstrated ability to present to and influence C-level executives; you can speak both "engineering" and "board deck," and navigate sensitive tradeoffs with data-backed clarity.
• Technical Domain Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including IaC (Terraform/Pulumi or similar) and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with containerized environments using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Solid understanding of designing scalable, high-performance, event-driven infrastructure and reusable cloud components.
• Experience building high-availability, fault-tolerant platforms.
• Experience managing distributed/European teams and navigating EU-specific considerations (data residency, GDPR, labor-law awareness a plus).
• People management experience with a bias toward coaching and growing managers and engineers, not just directing them.
• Experience or strong interest in cloud-native cybersecurity, specifically Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) or FinOps is a plus.

Requirements

• An inspiring infrastructure leader who is passionate about solving problems in complex distributed systems.
• A relentless execution mindset that brings the structure and discipline required to drive initiatives to completion.
• An empathetic negotiator who can balance internal team health and velocity with cost discipline and executive expectations.
• A strategic thinker comfortable owning ambiguous, high-stakes tradeoffs with incomplete information.
• High ownership of infrastructure reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery timelines.
• A collaborative mindset: someone who prioritizes the team and fosters a culture of high performance without ego.

Benefits

• Extra days off to prioritize your well-being.
• Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app.
• Great compensation package.
• The annual compensation range for this full-time position is between €99,000 and €124,000. Actual offers may be higher or lower than this range based on a variety of factors, including your work location, job-related experience and education.
• The national collective bargaining agreement (CCNL) applied by Sysdig is CCNL Terziario-Confcommercio.