Director of Infrastructure

🕒 September 18

🇮🇹 Italy – Remote

💵 €99k - €124k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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Sysdig

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $350M Series G on 2021-12

Cybersecurity • Cloud Security • Enterprise

Sysdig is a company that provides cloud and container security solutions. Their platform, Sysdig Secure, is designed to protect cloud-native applications by offering cloud workload protection, vulnerability management, and posture management. Sysdig focuses on real-time cloud security, detecting and responding to threats at cloud speed. The platform is a complete Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that prioritizes vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and threats. Sysdig stands out for its runtime insights, allowing for near real-time alerting and efficient forensic investigations. They offer services across multi-cloud environments with a goal of safeguarding cloud credentials and preventing cyber threats.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end cloud infrastructure strategy across the global footprint, including architecture, resourcing, maintenance, capacity planning, and vendor strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, and OCI • Drive continuous infrastructure cost optimization through rightsizing, committed spend, tagging, chargeback discipline, and waste elimination • Partner with executives by translating infrastructure investments and tradeoffs into business terms and presenting roadmaps influencing CTO/CFO budget and planning decisions • Make and defend build-vs-buy, multi-cloud versus single-cloud, and centralize-versus-federate decisions • Manage cross-team dependencies with Security, Data, and Product Engineering • Build, mentor, and lead an infrastructure/platform/SRE team; conduct performance reviews and provide coaching • Own infrastructure security posture, disaster recovery, GDPR and other EU regulatory considerations, and incident management • Review infrastructure-as-code and team architecture, and provide hands-on support when needed • Secure innovation in the cloud for organizations through Sysdig's cloud security platform and Falco open standard

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering experience • 4+ years directly leading infrastructure strategy and budget in a distributed systems environment • Proven experience leading cross-departmental initiatives in matrixed organizations • Demonstrated, measurable cloud cost optimization experience • Ability to present to and influence C-level executives • Deep hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure • Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or Pulumi • Networking fundamentals • Experience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and cloud-native technologies • Understanding of scalable, high-performance, event-driven infrastructure and reusable cloud components • Experience building high-availability, fault-tolerant platforms • Experience managing distributed/European teams and navigating EU-specific considerations • People management experience focused on coaching and developing managers and engineers • Experience or strong interest in CNAPP or FinOps is a plus • Passion for solving complex distributed-systems problems • Relentless execution mindset • Strategic decision-making under ambiguity and incomplete information • Collaborative, empathetic, high-ownership approach

🏖️ Benefits

• Extra days off to prioritize your well-being • Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app • Great compensation package