Role Summary (Executive Overview)
We are seeking a ProductOwner to lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of OpenShiftVirtualization capabilities built on KubeVirt, enabling enterprise‑grade virtualized workloads to run natively on Kubernetes. This role owns the product vision and execution across platform engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, storage, and operations, ensuring we deliver a scalable, resilient, and compliant virtualization platform that meets demanding enterprise SLAs.
The ideal candidate combines strong product leadership with deep hands‑on technical fluency in OpenShift/Kubernetes virtualization, including VM lifecycle, storage and network performance, security controls, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities
* Define and drive the product vision for OpenShiftVirtualization and associated services (VM provisioning, migration, backup/restore, DR, multi‑tenancy, policy‑driven governance).
* Own the multi‑quarter roadmap, aligning capabilities to business outcomes such as VMware modernization, cost optimization, faster provisioning, and platform standardization.
* Establish product positioning for internal stakeholders and engineering teams: "why this", "why now", and "how success is measured".
Delivery Ownership (Outcomes, Not Activity)
* Create and manage epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria with measurable outcomes and operational readiness baked in.
* Lead delivery ceremonies and governance: prioritization, backlog refinement, sprint planning, release readiness, and cross‑team dependency management.
* Drive release strategy (phased adoption, pilot → scale patterns), ensuring platform stability and operational maturity before broad rollout.
* Provide product leadership across:
* VM lifecycle management (create/clone/snapshot, templates, cloud‑init, day‑2 operations).
* Migration approaches (e.g., rehost, refactor boundaries; integration with migration toolchains where applicable).
* Networking (Multus, SR‑IOV, performance tuning, network policies, ingress/egress considerations).
* Security and compliance (RBAC, SCC/PSA, image signing, secrets management, policy‑as‑code).
* Observability (metrics/logging/tracing; SLOs; capacity and performance baselining).
* Automation (GitOps with Argo CD, Ansible, CI/CD enablement for platform services).
Stakeholder Leadership & Executive Communication
* Partner with Infrastructure, App teams, Security, Risk/Compliance, Architecture, and Operations to align priorities and unblock delivery.
* Provide crisp executive‑level communications: BLUF updates, risk trade‑offs, and decision papers.
* Lead stakeholder expectations and drive governance for standards: tenancy model, quotas, performance tiers, service catalog, and support model.
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