## About the Role

Sysdig is hiring a Director for FinOps Operational Cost Control to help improve cloud cost transparency and strengthen cost governance across a large-scale, multi-cloud environment. This role is focused on turning infrastructure spend into clear unit economics, cost-to-serve, and gross-margin insights that support pricing and competitive decisions.

The position partners closely with engineering, finance, product, and leadership teams to identify cost-saving opportunities and drive them to closure. It also plays a key role in building governance for AI/GPU compute, telemetry pipelines, and data retention decisions as these capabilities scale.

This is a highly visible, cross-functional role with responsibility for creating reporting, dashboards, and accountability mechanisms that keep cost initiatives moving and ensure cloud spend is managed with discipline.

## Key Responsibilities

– Own cloud and hosting cost transparency through reporting and dashboards focused on unit economics and cost drivers by product, team, and workload.
– Partner with engineering teams to identify and implement cost reduction opportunities, including rightsizing, reserved capacity, architecture improvements, and non-production environment efficiency.
– Establish cost governance for AI/GPU compute and security telemetry pipelines, including data retention and lifecycle decisions in partnership with Security and Compliance.
– Manage cost and pricing tradeoffs across a multi-cloud, multi-region environment, including data transfer, residency, and compliance costs.
– Translate infrastructure spending into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics to inform pricing and competitive strategy.
– Work with engineering leadership on a regular cadence to advance cost initiatives and report realized savings.
– Embed with engineering teams to promote cost-aware architecture patterns, automated tagging hygiene, and recurring cost review processes.
– Build cross-functional accountability and governance across Finance, Product, and Engineering leadership.

## Required Skills

– 8+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or operational cost management.
– Proven experience leading enterprise-wide cost initiatives and influencing cross-functional leaders.
– Demonstrated success reducing cloud or hosting spend at scale in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
– Strong understanding of unit economics and the ability to translate technical infrastructure costs into actionable business metrics.
– Experience building governance processes and cross-functional accountability structures.
– Comfort operating with significant autonomy in a highly visible role.
– Experience working with Finance, Product, and Engineering leadership.
– Experience optimizing GPU/AI compute costs and/or high-volume data pipeline costs.
– Deep familiarity with multi-cloud architectures and large-scale data ingestion or telemetry pipelines.

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP).
– Equivalent hands-on FinOps experience.
– Familiarity with the FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) framework.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– GCP
– Azure

### FinOps Platforms / Frameworks
– FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification)

### Infrastructure / Workload Areas
– Multi-cloud architectures
– Multi-region infrastructure
– GPU / AI compute
– Security telemetry pipelines
– Large-scale data ingestion pipelines

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Build reporting and dashboards for cloud and hosting cost transparency.
– Analyze unit economics and cost drivers by product, team, and workload.
– Identify and execute cloud cost savings opportunities.
– Improve rightsizing and reserved capacity utilization.
– Evaluate architecture changes that reduce spend.
– Improve efficiency in non-production environments.
– Establish governance for AI/GPU compute costs.
– Make data retention and lifecycle decisions for telemetry pipelines in partnership with Security and Compliance.
– Manage tradeoffs between cost, pricing, data transfer, residency, and compliance.
– Translate infrastructure costs into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics.
– Track and report cost savings delivered.
– Maintain automated tagging hygiene and recurring cost review cadences.

## Benefits

– Extra days off for well-being.
– 401(k) retirement savings plan with a 3% company match.
– Maternity and parental leave.
– Mental health support for employees and their families through the Modern Health app.
– Full health benefits for employees and their families.

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## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to shape cloud cost strategy at scale in a highly visible leadership position. The work spans FinOps, engineering partnership, and business metrics, with direct influence on pricing and margin decisions. It also includes ownership of AI/GPU compute cost governance and multi-cloud cost management, which adds technical depth and strategic scope. For professionals who enjoy building accountability, driving savings, and translating infrastructure spend into business outcomes, this is a compelling opportunity.