FinOps Operational Cost Control, Director

The role

Own hosting and cloud cost transparency, with dashboards on unit economics and cost drivers by product, team and workload. Partner with engineering to find and deliver cost savings across multi-cloud infrastructure, and translate costs into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics.

What you will do

• Build reporting and dashboards on unit economics and cost drivers by product, team and workload
• Identify and execute cost-saving opportunities with engineering, including rightsizing, reserved capacity, architecture changes and non-production efficiency
• Build 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 costs into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics that inform pricing and competitive strategy
• Keep cost initiatives moving to closure through a regular cadence with engineering leadership, and report savings delivered
• Embed with engineering teams to set cost-aware architecture patterns, automated tagging hygiene and regular cost reviews

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in FinOps, cloud cost optimization or operational cost management
• Proven experience leading enterprise-wide cost initiatives and influencing cross-functional leaders
• Demonstrated track record of reducing cloud or hosting spend at scale on AWS, GCP or Azure
• Strong grasp of unit economics, translating technical costs into metrics finance and business leaders act on
• Experience building governance processes and cross-functional accountability
• Comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a highly visible role
• Ability to establish cross-functional governance across Finance, Product and Engineering leadership
• 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 large-scale data ingestion or telemetry pipelines

Nice to have

• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) or equivalent hands-on experience
• Familiarity with the FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) framework

Benefits

• Extra days off
• 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

Before you apply

• Sysdig is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate on protected status

About the company

Sysdig is a cloud security company that created Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection. The posting says its technology is trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500 and that it has been recognized as a Best Place to Work.