Director of Infrastructure

The role

You will own the end-to-end cloud infrastructure strategy across Sysdig's global footprint, including architecture, capacity planning, and vendor strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM and OCI. You will also drive cost optimization and lead, mentor and grow an infrastructure, platform and SRE team.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end cloud infrastructure strategy across the global footprint, including architecture, resourcing, maintenance, capacity planning and vendor strategy
• Drive a continuous cost-optimization program: rightsizing, committed spend, tagging and chargeback, and eliminating waste
• Act as a key technical touchpoint for the executive team, presenting roadmaps that influence budget and planning at CTO/CFO level
• Make and defend build-vs-buy, multi-cloud vs single-cloud, and centralize-vs-federate decisions
• Manage cross-team dependencies with Security, Data and Product Engineering
• Build, mentor and lead a high-performing infrastructure, platform and SRE team, including performance reviews and coaching
• Own infrastructure risk: security posture, disaster recovery, compliance (including GDPR) and incident management
• Review infrastructure-as-code and architecture, and step in hands-on when needed to unblock milestones

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience
• 4+ years directly leading infrastructure strategy and budget in a distributed systems environment
• Proven experience leading initiatives across multiple departments in matrixed organizations
• Measurable cost optimization track record backed by real numbers
• Ability to present to and influence C-level executives
• 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
• Experience designing scalable, high-performance, event-driven infrastructure
• Experience building high-availability, fault-tolerant platforms
• Experience managing distributed or European teams and navigating EU considerations (data residency, GDPR)
• People management experience with a bias toward coaching and growing managers and engineers

Nice to have

• Labor-law awareness (EU)
• Experience or strong interest in cloud-native cybersecurity, specifically CNAPP
• Experience or strong interest in FinOps

Benefits

• Extra days off
• Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app
• Great compensation package

Before you apply

• Applies under the national collective bargaining agreement CCNL Terziario-Confcommercio
• Sysdig encourages applications even if your experience does not perfectly match the description

About the company

Sysdig secures cloud innovation and 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.