Product Owner CI/CD

Job Title: Product Owner – CI/CD
Location: Frisco (Preferred) or Seatle (No Hybrid or Remote)
Duration/Term: Long Term Contract

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Product Owner (8 years) to lead the CI/CD team, focusing on managing CI/CD tasks in Public Cloud or On-Premise environments. This role requires a strong CI/CD mindset, translating business value into product roadmaps and backlogs while working closely with development and DevOps teams. The ideal candidate will drive product vision, enhance customer experience, and develop innovative automation solutions in cloud and containerized environments.

Objectives of this role

• Lead team scrums to define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities, and communicate with stakeholders throughout the project
• Collaborate with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals
• Work closely with product managers and business teams to create and maintain product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Remain up to date on trends and best practices for agile project management

Responsibilities

• Design software and business processes, including process modeling and user story grooming, in industrial verticals including the heavy platforms Cloud foundry and Kubernetes.
• Interpret business requirements and create capabilities in Jira Align, breaking them into features and functional/technical user stories in Jira.
• Refine the functional and technical user stories with the offshore and onshore Devops including the review of the test cases with SDETs and Manual testing team.
• Partner with multiple businesses enterprise-wide, and various stakeholders to define the current customer experience, identify areas of improvement, and use the inputs to create and drive product vision and Roadmap.
• Design and develop integration scripts and procedures using Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) tools and integrate with backend services.
• Define and resolve impediments in the Kubernetes platform impacting the customers, including the internal Gen X to Gen Y migrations and the various component upgrades.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience with Public Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with Container Technologies like EKS, AKS, OpenShift, Kubernetes on On-premises
• Familiar with automation tools and frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, Crossplane)
• Familiar with coding and scripting languages (eg, Python, GO, Bash)
• Designing and building the Customer Journey for application or Kubernetes platform team using Grafana Dashboards.
• CI/CD: Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Converting high level business requirements into features/user stories using Agile tools, Jira, and Jira Align;
• Collaborating with business teams/customer teams to identify the pain points in the customer journey, and work on providing resolutions by creating and driving the vision and roadmap using Roadmunk
• Verifying and validating data in the Facility Pricing tool to assess customer risk, collateral, profitability, and fees through SQL Queries using Oracle SQL Developer tool.

Experience and education requirements:

PRIMARY REQUIREMENTS: Master s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or related field, and 5 years of relevant work experience.

ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or related field, and 7 years of relevant work experience.

Key Skills

Product Ownership, CI/CD, Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane, Jira, Jira Align, Roadmunk, Grafana, SQL, Data Analysis, Agile, DevOps, Automation.

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