01Key Responsibilities
- Vision & Strategy: Define and own the multi-year roadmap, vision, and lifecycle management for IaaS and PaaS offerings.
- Portfolio Ownership: Manage diverse IaaS infrastructure including Virtual Machines, Bare Metal, Networking, Storage, Backup, Kubernetes, and GPU/AI resources.
- Platform Services: Oversee PaaS offerings such as Managed Kubernetes, DBaaS, Messaging, API Gateways, and Observability platforms.
- Requirements Definition: Translate customer, business, and regulatory needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications.
- Customer Advocacy: Act as the voice of the customer by engaging directly with enterprise and regulated clients through workshops and executive discussions.
- Governance & Compliance: Ensure platform adherence to security standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS) and data sovereignty requirements.
- Security Integration: Drive security-by-design principles across all cloud infrastructure and platform services in collaboration with risk and security teams.
- Agile Management: Own and prioritize the product backlog, define MVPs, and lead sprint planning and release management.
- Commercial Strategy: Develop pricing models, build business cases, monitor profitability, and track customer adoption metrics.
- Presales & Partnerships: Support sales teams by contributing to RFPs, proposals, product positioning, and customer solutioning.
- Analytics & KPIs: Define and monitor key performance indicators to evaluate platform utilization and measure overall success.
- Continuous Improvement: Analyze market trends, track competitor offerings, and drive ongoing service innovation and feedback loops.
Required Masters degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
- Product Management certification 8-15 years of experience in Cloud, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or Product Management.
- 5+ years of Product Management experience for cloud or platform products.
- Experience managing enterprise-grade IaaS and PaaS platforms.
- Experience working with cloud technologies and modern platform ecosystems.
Technical Expertise:
- Strong understanding of: Cloud Computing Concepts, Private, Public, Hybrid, and Sovereign Cloud, Kubernetes and Container Platforms, OpenStack, VMware, or Hyperscaler Technologies, Infrastructure Automation, CI/CD and DevOps Practices, Networking, Storage, Compute Virtualization, Observability and Monitoring Platforms, Security and Compliance Frameworks, API and Platform Ecosystems.
Preferred Technologies:
- OpenStack, Kubernetes, VMware Cloud Foundation, Rancher/OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab/Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, ServiceNow, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud.
Key Competencies:
- Product Vision & Strategy, Customer-Centric Thinking, Cloud Platform Expertise, Analytical & Data-Driven Decision Making, Stakeholder Management, Executive Communication, Agile Product Management, Commercial Acumen, Cross-functional Leadership, Problem Solving & Innovation.
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