(Remote Work) Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, FinOps

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Job Overview

Job Title Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, FinOps
Hiring Organization GitLab
Company Website https://about.gitlab.com/
Remote Locations US, EMEA
Job Type Remote, Full-Time
Remarks

FinOps Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) at GitLab ensure the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our user-facing services and internal systems. We are a team of pragmatic engineers, blending operational discipline, engineering best practices, and automation to manage complex environments and large-scale infrastructures. Our core mission is to operate GitLab’s systems with financial accountability, striving for optimal cost-performance balance.

As an SRE for FinOps:

You will play a critical role in driving the integration of FinOps principles into GitLab’s operational and engineering practices. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Finance, Engineering, and Compliance, to ensure that financial efficiency is embedded in all stages of system design, deployment, and operation.

Job Responsibilities

Build:

Automate operational tasks related to cost management, including the provisioning of cost-efficient cloud resources and managing configurations to reduce unnecessary spending.
Develop tools and processes for tracking, reporting, and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs, ensuring all operational tasks are automated for maximum efficiency and scalability.

Plan:

Partner with the Finance and Engineering teams to identify opportunities to optimize cloud costs while maintaining high levels of service reliability and performance.
Use data-driven insights and FinOps best practices to evaluate and make trade-offs between infrastructure costs and feature development priorities.
Drive the adoption of cost-conscious decision-making throughout the development and deployment lifecycle, ensuring that financial considerations are prioritized alongside technical goals.

Partner:

Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for financial operations (FinOps) across the GitLab Infrastructure team, helping to drive cloud cost optimization strategies.
Work with internal and external auditors to ensure financial compliance, particularly in relation to cloud infrastructure usage. Support audits and certifications like FedRAMP, SOC2, and ISO by collaborating with the Finance and Compliance teams.
Provide insight into how changes in GitLab’s systems, infrastructure, and usage patterns affect financial forecasting, reporting, and budgeting.

Collaborate:

Work closely with engineering and product teams to identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks that impact cloud efficiency and cost. Offer a large-scale operational perspective to help teams design systems that are both reliable and financially sustainable.
Collaborate across engineering teams to promote cost-awareness and share best practices for optimizing cloud infrastructure spending, encouraging the integration of FinOps principles in day-to-day decision-making.

Key Projects You Could Work On:

Develop, evangelize, and monitor the adoption of FinOps best practices across GitLab’s cloud infrastructure.
Engage with US Public Sector entities and regulatory bodies to ensure GitLab’s services meet Federal compliance standards and are financially optimized for large-scale deployments.
Partner with Finance to evaluate and forecast costs, making sure that GitLab’s cloud footprint is cost-effective and aligned with business objectives.
Drive cost-efficient changes across various GitLab environments and cloud provider systems (AWS, GCP) while contributing to GitLab’s observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, ELK).
Work on GitLab’s core projects (e.g., GitLab Rails, GitLab Runners) to enhance both technical and financial aspects of our infrastructure.
Contribute to GitLab’s automation tools (e.g., Helm Charts, Omnibus GitLab) and infrastructure-as-code initiatives to ensure that cost controls are built into the deployment pipelines.