FinOps Operational Cost Control, Director

The role

This director will lead cloud and hosting cost control at Sysdig. The role covers cost reporting, cost-saving work with engineering, and cost governance for AI/GPU compute and security telemetry pipelines across multi-cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Build reporting and dashboards on unit economics and cost drivers by product, team, and workload.
• Work with engineering to find and carry out cost-saving opportunities such as rightsizing, reserved capacity, architecture changes, and non-production efficiency.
• Build cost governance for AI/GPU compute and security telemetry pipelines, including data retention decisions made with Security and Compliance.
• Manage cost and pricing tradeoffs across multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure, including data transfer, residency, and compliance costs.
• Turn 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 on savings delivered.
• Work directly with engineering teams on cost-aware architecture, 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.
• Track record of reducing cloud or hosting spend at scale on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong grasp of unit economics and ability to translate technical costs into metrics finance and business leaders act on.
• Experience building governance processes and cross-functional accountability, and working with significant autonomy in a highly visible role.
• Ability to set up 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 encourages applications even if your experience does not perfectly match the job description.

About the company

Sysdig is a cloud security company that created Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection. Its technology is trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500, and it has been recognized as a Best Place to Work and one of Deloitte's fastest-growing companies for five years.