Senior FinOps Leader - Cloud Cost Optimization & Governance

Sysdig; United States; Remote; USD 198,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra days off

401(k) with company match

Maternity & Parental Leave

Mental health support via ModernHealth

Full health benefits package

Job summary

Sysdig is seeking a senior FinOps leader to own hosting and cloud cost transparency, translating complex infrastructure costs into actionable metrics for product and executive teams. You will build dashboards by product, team, and workload to drive cost-aware decisions.

You will partner with engineering to identify savings opportunities, govern AI/GPU compute costs, and manage multi-cloud cost trade-offs across regions and data residency.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or operational cost management, with proven experience leading enterprise-wide cost initiatives and influencing cross-functional leaders.
• Demonstrated track record of reducing cloud/hosting spend at scale (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong grasp of unit economics, with the ability to translate technical infrastructure costs into metrics that finance and business leaders act on.
• Experience building governance processes and cross-functional accountability, and comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a highly visible role.
• Proven ability to establish cross-functional governance structures across Finance, Product, and Engineering leadership to drive accountability.
• 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 massive-scale data ingestion/telemetry pipelines.

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, reserved capacity, architecture changes, and non-production environment efficiency.
• Build cost governance for AI/GPU compute and security telemetry pipelines as they scale with our AI-driven detection capabilities, including data retention and lifecycle decisions made in partnership with Security and Compliance.
• Manage cost and pricing tradeoffs across our multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure, including data transfer, residency, and compliance costs.
• Translate infrastructure costs into cost-to-serve and gross-margin metrics that inform pricing and competitive strategy.
• Partner with engineering leadership through a regular cadence to keep cost initiatives moving to closure, and report on savings delivered.
• Embed directly with engineering teams to establish cost-aware architecture patterns, automated tagging hygiene, and regular cost-review cadences.

Skills

FinOps Practitioner

GPU/AI cost

Multi-cloud

Telemetry pipelines

Cost governance

Job description

Sysdig is seeking a senior FinOps leader to own hosting and cloud cost transparency, translating complex infrastructure costs into actionable metrics for product and executive teams. You will build dashboards by product, team, and workload to drive cost-aware decisions.

You will partner with engineering to identify savings opportunities, govern AI/GPU compute costs, and manage multi-cloud cost trade-offs across regions and data residency.