Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, seeking a Cloud Cost Utilization Site Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will enhance cloud spending visibility and accountability by collaborating with engineering and finance teams, developing strategies for cost attribution, and improving billing data quality across cloud services.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain cloud resource tagging and labeling strategies across Google Cloud Platform and AWS to support accurate cost attribution
- Develop tooling and pipelines to ingest, normalize, and report on cloud billing data using the FOCUS specification
- Automate cost anomaly detection, forecasting, and alerting so engineering teams can respond quickly to changes in infrastructure spend
- Contribute to GitLab's observability and monitoring stacks, including Prometheus, LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir), and ELK, with a focus on surfacing cost efficiency signals
- Partner with Finance and Engineering leadership to support cloud cost forecasting for planning and budget discussions
- Act as a subject matter expert for cloud cost attribution, tagging strategy, and FOCUS adoption across GitLab Infrastructure
- Collaborate with Finance and Compliance teams on audits, certifications, and financial reporting needs related to cloud infrastructure usage
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code efforts, including Terraform and Ansible, so cost controls and tagging requirements are built into provisioning workflows from the start
Skills
- Hands-on experience with cloud cost management in Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS, including billing data, pricing models, and optimization approaches
- Familiarity with, or interest in adopting, the FinOps FOCUS specification for multi-cloud cost analysis
- Experience designing or implementing cloud resource tagging and labeling strategies and improving adoption across teams
- Comfort working across technical and business functions, including Engineering, Finance, and other stakeholders
- Experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform and Ansible
- Familiarity with observability tooling, including Grafana, and an understanding of how reliability and cost signals can be connected
- Ability to explain technical cost data clearly to non-engineering audiences and support informed decision-making
- A self-directed approach to work, with comfort operating in a fully remote and asynchronous environment
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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