[Remote] Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Cost Utilization

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to improve operational efficiency and accelerate digital transformation. As a Cloud Cost Utilization SRE, you will enhance visibility and accountability of cloud spending, partnering with cross-functional teams to optimize cloud usage and develop effective cost management strategies.


Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain cloud resource tagging and labeling strategies across GCP 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 GCP 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

Company Overview

  • GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://about.gitlab.com.

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