Job Summary: 

As a Senior Platform Product Owner, you will herald a transformative era in software engineering, one that underscores the integration of development and operations through a single, comprehensive platform. Platform engineers, with their comprehensive technical and problem-solving skills, are shaping the future of software development to efficiently deliver high-quality, secure software, by providing automated services that enable SW engineers to focus on developing mission capabilities. The role's core responsibility will be as a Product Owner for an agile platform product team. Additionally, you will help with the design and implementation of the platform. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. NOTE: This position will be onsite in Aurora CO.

What You Will Do: 

• Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure to a modern platform infrastructure. 
• Convert strategy and strategic initiatives into well-developed plans and objectives over different time frames captured a backlog of features and stories. 
• Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions. 
• Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premise VMware computing environments. 
• Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management. 
• Ensure security and compliance are integrated into the platform. 
• Provide operational support for the platform.

Qualifications You Must Have: 

• A U.S. government TS/SCI / CI Poly issued security clearance is required. 
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance. 
• Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5+ years of related work experience. 
• Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe). 
• Great communication and interpersonal skills to successfully work with various teams. • Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services. 
• Experience with containerization using technologies such as Kubernetes or Docker. 
• Experience with troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based Operating Systems. 
• Experience with VMware. 
• Experience with programming/automation/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go). 
• Able to break down complex ideas into easy-to-understand tasking. 
• Current CompTIA Security + or ability to obtain within 90 days.