Assignment description

The Cloud & Infrastructure Technical Product Owner will lead the technical strategy, design, and implementation of the company's cloud infrastructure. This role will play a critical part in advancing the company’s cloud-first strategy, with a strong emphasis on automation, scalability, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The role must bring expertise cultivated from a developer and engineering perspective. Given the size of the team, the Product Owner will contribute as a developer in the team.

As an influential technical leader, the Product Owner will ensure the delivery of secure, efficient, and scalable cloud-and on-prem hosting services, collaborating across teams and mentoring engineers to drive good automation practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Ownership:

• Take ownership of the technical roadmap for the company’s infrastructure, delivering on the cloud-first vision while prioritizing automation and IaC principles.

• Implement streamlined, high-performing resource provisioning processes and maintain high levels of reliability and security.

Technical Collaboration:

• Collaborate with teams across Data & Analytics, Network Services, digital product teams to integrate cloud infrastructure solutions into the application landscape.

• Facilitate workflows and automation pipelines using source control and CI/CD tools like GitHub Enterprise.

• This role is expected to have a strong technical collaboration across the company including the technical lead community.

Mentorship & Enablement:

• Provide informal mentorship to engineers, empowering them with good practices in cloud automation, IaC, and DevOps.

• Serve as a technical thought leader, driving innovation and advocating for continuous improvement in cloud practices.

Cost and Vendor Optimization:

Evaluate vendors and technologies to ensure alignment with performance needs and cost management goals.

Skill requirements:

• Cloud Platforms: Azure architecture and services (Functions, VMs, networking, storage, AKS, automation)

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep, Ansible principles and usage.

• DevOps & CI/CD: Concepts, pipelines, and integration (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).

• Monitoring & Observability: Zabbix, Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus.

• Product Ownership Practices: Backlog management, prioritization, stakeholder engagement, roadmap definition.



Experience:

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering, with significant experience implementing IaC solutions within Azure environments.

• Proven ability to align cloud strategy with business objectives.

• Delivered large-scale platform automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code.

• Designed and implemented observability frameworks for multi-environment platforms.

• Worked closely with cross-functional teams including developers, operations, business, and security.

Skills:

• Strategic thinking with a technical depth in cloud & infrastructure.

• Strong leadership and influencing abilities without direct authority.

• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Hands-on capability with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and modern DevOps tools.

• Skilled in translating business needs into robust, scalable technical solutions.

• Forward-thinking, curious and tech savvy with proven ability to build great relationships and get results from working with others.