FinOps Operational Cost Control, Director

Sysdig

10d • $172,000 - $215,000 • Remote

About The Position

Sysdig is hiring a Director of FinOps Operational Cost Control to lead cloud and hosting cost transparency, optimization, and governance. The role builds reporting and dashboards for unit economics and cost drivers across products, teams, and workloads, and partners closely with Engineering to identify and deliver savings. It also manages infrastructure cost and pricing tradeoffs across a multi-cloud, multi-region environment, translating infrastructure costs into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics that inform pricing and competitive strategy. The Director establishes cross-functional accountability and recurring cost-review practices, embeds with engineering teams to promote cost-aware architecture and automated tagging, and reports on savings delivered. The role includes governance for AI/GPU compute and security telemetry pipelines, including data-retention and lifecycle decisions made with Security and Compliance.

Requirements

• At least 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 on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of unit economics and ability to translate technical infrastructure costs into actionable metrics for finance and business leaders.
• Experience building governance processes and cross-functional accountability; able to operate with significant autonomy in a highly visible role.
• Proven ability to establish cross-functional governance structures 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 Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Build reporting and dashboards that provide hosting and cloud cost transparency, including unit economics and cost drivers by product, team, and workload.
• Partner with Engineering to identify and execute cost-saving initiatives such as rightsizing, reserved capacity, architecture changes, and improving non-production environment efficiency.
• Build 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 multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure, including data transfer, residency, and compliance costs.
• Translate infrastructure costs into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics to inform pricing and competitive strategy.
• Establish a regular cadence with engineering leadership to advance cost initiatives through completion and report on delivered savings.
• Work directly with engineering teams to establish cost-aware architecture patterns, automated tagging hygiene, and recurring cost-review cadences.
• Establish cross-functional governance and accountability across Finance, Product, and Engineering leadership.

Benefits

• Extra days off to prioritize 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 package for employees and their families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed