FinOps Technical Program Manager - Remote

Overview

Technical Program Managers at GitLab are responsible for providing financial visibility across organization’s cloud infrastructure, and driving optimization of both infrastructure costs and capacity utilization. The FinOps Technical Program Manager is expected to work with Infrastructure Engineers, Financial Analysts, and Product teams to achieve operational excellence at acceptable cost.

In Short

• Proactively monitor cloud usage patterns and identify anomalies, enabling quick action to prevent cost overruns.
• Develop and implement sophisticated cost allocation and chargeback models.
• Build unit economics frameworks that provide actionable insights to Engineering, Finance, Product and other business teams.
• Create advanced forecasting models for both capacity requirements and infrastructure spend.
• Design and implement automation for capacity management and cost optimization processes.
• Drive the development of capacity planning approaches and dashboards for better visibility.
• Develop and articulate long-term strategy and short-term plans in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to optimize cloud spending and capacity utilization.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across Engineering, Finance, Product and other business teams as needed.
• Foster a culture of efficiency and optimization across the engineering organization.

Requirements

• Strong experience in capacity planning, or cloud operations, preferably in a large-scale SaaS environment.
• Excellent quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in data analysis and modeling methodologies for capacity forecasting.
• Proven track record with cloud cost management tools, and capacity planning systems.
• Experience with SaaS business models and economics.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI, SaaS vendors) and Cloud Native technologies (Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenCost, etc).
• Experience with cloud cost management tools (Cloudability, CloudHealth, etc.).
• Solid programming and automation skills (Python, Bash, CI/CD) with experience in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Chef).
• Experience with Data Visualization Tools (E.g. Looker Studio, Snowflake, Grafana, Kibana).
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to build consensus across teams.

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being.
• All remote, asynchronous work environment.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and development budget.
• Parental leave.
• Home office support.