Sr. Product Owner – Container Platform

The Sr. Product Owner (PO) for the Container Platform is a critical member of the extended Product Management team and serves as a bridge between business stakeholders, engineering teams, and operations for both cloud-native and on-premises Kubernetes platforms. The Sr. PO is responsible for the Team/Sprint backlog, acting as the single source of truth and primary point of contact to development and customer teams for user story details. They are responsible for defining and refining user stories, prioritizing the backlog, and ensuring delivery of platform capabilities that maintain high availability, scalability, and security of containerized workloads. This role requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes, container orchestration, hybrid-cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices. The Sr. PO collaborates closely with engineering teams to streamline execution of priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity. They remain highly available to Dev teams during each sprint to answer real-time questions and clarify requirements. The Sr. PO ensures that the backlog contains at least 2 iterations worth of ‘ready’ work, driving velocity and quality in delivery. They also own acceptance of user stories, ensuring alignment with business needs, acceptance criteria, and operational readiness. Beyond Agile team responsibilities, the Sr. PO partners with Product Management on product vision and roadmaps, contributes to Program Increment (PI) Planning, and works cross-functionally with other POs to align container platform initiatives across the enterprise. They also mentor junior Product Owners and promote best practices in Kubernetes adoption, hybrid-cloud integration, and developer platform experience.