SRE Product Owner

About the position

Leidos currently has an opening on the Service Management Integration and Transport (SMIT) Contract for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Product Owner. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience and leadership skills to successfully execute the mission of the Navy’s largest IT services program. Under the SMIT Contract, the Leidos team is responsible for the core backbone for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, including cybersecurity services, network operations, network engineering, service desk, seat support services, and data transport. The SRE Product Owner works closely with the designated SRE team to prioritize and guide the development and implementation of reliability-focused features, tooling, and processes. This role ensures that SRE practices align with business goals and improve the resilience, scalability, and performance of critical systems. The PO advocates for automation, proactive monitoring, and incident management best practices to enhance the end-user experience. The Product Owner will collaborate with other product owners, architects, and the Director to continue to improve and mature our site reliability engineering program processes and procedures. They will have technical leadership over their 6-10 employees and work with SRE Resource Managers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a product vision and roadmap for SRE initiatives, in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Translate business and operational requirements into product features and technical requirements for SRE teams.
• Conduct quarterly or biannual planning sessions with SRE leaders and engineering teams.
• Assess business value and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with product strategy.
• Work with the SRE stakeholders on establishing an infrastructure automation vision and a roadmap that aligns with the platform's strategic mission and objectives.
• Prioritize features and functionality based on business value, customer feedback, and market demand, maintaining a product backlog, and collaborating with development teams for timely delivery.
• Create User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, ensuring stories clearly communicate customer/Stakeholder needs to the development team; work with team to clarify stories as necessary.
• Participate in team demo, retro, and Inspect and Adapt.
• Provide operational leadership and understanding of the development path for the product.
• Coordinate initiatives that span multiple teams, such as implementing organization-wide observability tools.
• Communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project.
• Convince others to accept area’s view/current practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices and approaches.
• Embrace and champion Agile development processes and adoption to modern Site Reliability Engineering workflows and practices while providing technical guidance to team members and coworkers on best practices.
• Review new work proposals that may have an impact with your product(s) and roadmap.
• Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and world-class service.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 8 years of related IT experience related to Product Owner role of which Five (5) years of experience in product leadership or leading projects in an agile environment.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and have an active DoD Secret security clearance.
• Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required prior to onboarding and must maintain certification while supporting the SMIT Contract.
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel).
• Ability to travel up to 10% including the potential for OCONUS travel.
• Ability to review requirements, comprehend, and solution capabilities that satisfy customer requirements.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment.
• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).
• Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA STIGs.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous work experience providing support to the NGEN-NMCI program is highly desired.
• Previous people leadership and mentoring experience.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
• Advanced/Professional level vendor certifications (Azure).
• ITILv4 and Agile SAFe certifications or applicable experience.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement