SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud)

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Shuvel Digital

SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud)

Dulles, VA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Title: SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud)

    Location: Dulles, VA - Hybrid

    Duration: Contract

    Clearance : 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 architecture

    Required 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 integration

    Desired 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 Align

    Required 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