Senior FinOps & Cloud Cost Strategy Leader

Sysdig, Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 172,000 - 215,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Extra days off

401(k) with 3% company match

Maternity and Parental Leave

Mental health support

Job summary

Sysdig is seeking a Senior FinOps / Cloud Cost Lead in the United States to own cost transparency, reporting, and governance across multi-cloud environments. You will partner with engineering to identify opportunities, drive cost-saving initiatives, and shape pricing and capacity decisions as the company scales AI/telemetry workloads.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in FinOps with a proven track record reducing cloud spend, strong governance experience, and deep familiarity with AWS, GCP, and

Qualifications

8+ years in FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or operational cost management.
Demonstrated track record of reducing cloud/hosting spend at scale (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Experience building governance processes and cross-functional accountability.

Responsibilities

Own hosting/cloud cost transparency: build reporting and dashboards on unit economics and cost drivers by product, team, and workload.
Partner with engineering to identify and execute cost-saving opportunities, including rightsizing and reserved capacity.
Build cost governance for AI/GPU compute and security telemetry pipelines as they scale with our AI-driven detection capabilities.

Skills

FinOps

Cost optimization

Cross-functional leadership

Education

FOCP Certification

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

FOCUS framework

Job description

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in FinOps with a proven track record reducing cloud spend, strong governance experience, and deep familiarity with AWS, GCP, and

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