FinOps Lead: Cloud Cost Optimization & Governance

Sysdig; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra days off

401(k) retirement with 3% match

Maternity and parental leave

Mental health support

Full health benefits

Job summary

Sysdig, a cloud security company known for Falco, seeks a seasoned FinOps leader to optimize cloud costs and governance across multi-cloud environments. The role partners with engineering and finance to drive cost transparency and scalable cost-control programs.

The position emphasizes autonomy in a high-visibility role, with a strong track record in reducing cloud spend and translating costs into actionable metrics for executives. Expect competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in FinOps or cloud cost management.
• Proven track record reducing cloud/hosting spend at scale.
• Translate infra costs into metrics for finance and leadership.
• Experience building governance processes with cross-functional teams.
• Cross-functional governance across Finance, Product, and Engineering.
• Experience with GPU/AI compute cost optimization.
• Deep familiarity with AWS, GCP, Azure.

Responsibilities

• Own hosting cost reporting and dashboards by product, team and workload.
• Identify and execute cost-saving opportunities with Eng.
• Build cost governance for AI/GPU compute and data pipelines.
• Manage cost and pricing tradeoffs across multi-cloud infra.
• Translate infrastructure costs into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics.
• Partner with leadership to report savings and progress.
• Embed with engineering for cost-aware architecture patterns.

Skills

FinOps

Cost optimization

Unit economics

Governance

Multi-cloud

GPU cost

Data pipelines

Automation

Job description

Sysdig, a cloud security company known for Falco, seeks a seasoned FinOps leader to optimize cloud costs and governance across multi-cloud environments. The role partners with engineering and finance to drive cost transparency and scalable cost-control programs.

The position emphasizes autonomy in a high-visibility role, with a strong track record in reducing cloud spend and translating costs into actionable metrics for executives. Expect competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.