What are the responsibilities and job description for the SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud) position at Shuvel Digital?
Job Title : SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud)Location : Dulles, VA - HybridDuration : ContractClearance : Active Secret. Must be able to obtain TS / SCI.Description : Supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. We are seeking a SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud) to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.Responsibilities Include :
- Leading and collaborating within an Agile Scrum team as an Agile Release Train (ART) lead responsible for developing advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
- Leading and facilitating team related Agile events (PI Planning, Release Governance, Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, etc.) while maintaining all artifacts (Backlogs, Decisions, Blockers, etc.)
- Eliminating impediments and actively addressing issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the Program Increment (PI)
- Escalating as needed when blocking issues are beyond the team's authority or require support from other teams
- Fostering a collaborative team environment through coaching & leading appropriately
- Leading and facilitating preparation & readiness for ART events (e.g., PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, etc.)
- Review high quality technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product training
- Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities
- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
- Full lifecycle oversight of requirements driven automation architectureRequired Skills :
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS / SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain Client Suitability
- Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading infrastructure as code (IAC) projects
- Experience communicating with program leadership
- Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- 8 years of professional experience in a technology related field
- 5 years direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous api driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments
- 2 years of experience in either AWS, MS Azure or GCP
- Strong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integrationDesired Skills :
- Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level
- Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like CloudFormation
- Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)
- Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows
- Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories
- Experience with branching and release strategies, CI / CD Pipelines,
- AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
- Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures
- Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects
- Experience working in DevOps and / or DevSecOps environments
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
- Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira AlignRequired Education : Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.Desired Certifications :
- DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II
- Certifications related to Agile development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner
