[Hiring] FinOps Operational Cost Control, Director @Sysdig

Role Description

Own hosting/cloud cost transparency: build reporting and dashboards on unit economics and cost drivers by product, team, and workload.

• Partner with engineering to identify and execute cost-saving opportunities, including rightsizing, reserved capacity, architecture changes, and non-production environment efficiency.
• Build cost governance for AI/GPU compute and security telemetry pipelines as they scale with our AI-driven detection capabilities, including data retention and lifecycle decisions made in partnership with Security and Compliance.
• Manage cost and pricing tradeoffs across our multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure, including data transfer, residency, and compliance costs.
• Translate infrastructure costs into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics that inform pricing and competitive strategy.
• Partner with engineering leadership through a regular cadence to keep cost initiatives moving to closure, and report on savings delivered.
• Embed directly with engineering teams to establish cost-aware architecture patterns, automated tagging hygiene, and regular cost-review cadences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or operational cost management, with proven experience leading enterprise-wide cost initiatives and influencing cross-functional leaders.
• Demonstrated track record of reducing cloud/hosting spend at scale (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong grasp of unit economics, with the ability to translate technical infrastructure costs into metrics that finance and business leaders act on.
• Experience building governance processes and cross-functional accountability, and comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a highly visible role.
• Proven ability to establish cross-functional governance structures across Finance, Product, and Engineering leadership to drive accountability.
• Experience with GPU/AI compute cost optimization and/or high-volume data pipeline cost management.
• Deep familiarity with multi-cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure) and massive-scale data ingestion/telemetry pipelines.

Requirements

• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP), or equivalent hands-on experience, and familiarity with the FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) framework.
• Experience optimizing the cost of GPU/AI compute, or of high-volume data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with multi-cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure) and large-scale telemetry or data ingestion pipelines.

Benefits

• Extra days off to prioritize your well-being
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 3% company match
• Maternity and Parental Leave
• Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app
• Full health benefits package for you and your family
• The U.S. annual salary range for this full-time position is between 198,000 and 247,000 USD/year. 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.