Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Cost Optimization & Efficiency) at sysdig

sysdig

Flexible - Costa Rica·1d ago

SeniorFull-timeRustRailsAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformCI/CD

Salary Range

$132,600 - $179,400 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join Sysdig, a leader in cloud security. This role focuses on optimizing cloud infrastructure, managing Kubernetes scaling strategies, and ensuring cost efficiency while maintaining system reliability.

Key Responsibilities

→Design and implement Kubernetes scaling strategies (HPA, VPA, Karpenter) that align resource consumption with real-time demand.
→Act as the technical lead in determining where we can safely optimize (e.g., Spot instances for non-critical workloads) and where we must invest in over-provisioning to protect our SLOs.
→Regularly audit cloud environments to identify underutilized resources and ghost infrastructure, providing actionable data to leadership on potential savings.
→Develop IaC modules and CI/CD policies that prevent "cost-drift" before it happens, ensuring developers have the resources they need without excess waste.
→Partner with Finance and Product teams to translate technical infrastructure metrics into business value and cost-per-feature insights.

Requirements

✓3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
✓Deep Kubernetes expertise: Expert-level knowledge of K8s internals.
✓Cloud fluency: Extensive experience managing large-scale environments in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
✓Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Mastery of Terraform to manage complex, multi-environment deployments.
✓System design: Proven ability to explain the trade-offs between different compute types (e.g., On-Demand vs. Spot vs. Reserved) and their impact on system availability.
✓Data-driven mindset: Strong proficiency in Prometheus, Grafana, and SQL to analyze performance metrics and correlate them with billing data.