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Staff Technical Program Manager, FinOps

unlimited holidays - work from home - work from anywhere
Remote: 
Full Remote
Salary: 
120 - 258K yearly
Experience: 
Senior (5-10 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Strong experience in capacity planning or cloud operations., Expertise in cloud cost management tools., Solid programming and automation skills., Understanding of cloud computing platforms..

Key responsabilities:

  • Monitor cloud usage patterns for cost optimization.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to optimize costs.
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Job description

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

An overview of this role

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. 

What you'll do

Cost Optimization and Efficiency
  • 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
Strategy & Process Improvement
  • Develop and articulate long-term strategy and short-term plans in collaboration with engineering teams
  • Build consensus amongst cross-functional teams through strong quantitative analysis and actionable recommendations
  • Design and launch new processes and improvements to help teams scale
  • Research and evaluate new technologies to enhance our capacity management capabilities
  • Provide technical leadership in capacity-related architectural decisions
  • Foster a culture of efficiency and optimization across the engineering organization
Program Management
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to optimize cloud spending and capacity utilization
  • Create and track KPIs for measuring program success and cost efficiency
  • Drive quarterly planning and budgeting processes for cloud infrastructure
  • Manage stakeholder relationships across Engineering, Finance, Product and other business teams as needed
  • Set project/program success criteria and create measurable milestones
What you'll bring
  • 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)
  • Solid understanding of data ingestion methodologies (ETL, ELT, dbt, Airflow)
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to build consensus across teams
  • Able to thrive in a fully remote organization
How GitLab will support you 

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

 
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The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

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$120,400$258,000 USD

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Experience

Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
Industry :
Information Technology & Services
Spoken language(s):
English
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Other Skills

  • Social Skills
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving

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