Product Owner

HelloKindred are specialists in staffing marketing, creative and technology roles, offering a range of talent solutions that can be delivered on-site, remotely or hybrid. Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Product Owner to lead the VMware Virtualization Engineering POD within a Distributed Compute environment.

Requirements

• Lead and mentor a team of VMware engineers
• Manage people performance and support professional development
• Define and drive VMware product vision and strategy
• Design, deploy, and manage VMware technologies
• Oversee day-to-day operations, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Establish and enforce engineering standards and SRE best practices
• Drive automation initiatives using PowerCLI, Python, Ansible, and vRO workflows
• Collaborate with operations, applications, engineering, connectivity teams, and vendors
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, and best practices
• Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems
• Ensure system availability and performance in line with defined SLAs and SLOs
• Monitor compliance, mitigate risks using tools such as vRealize Operations
• Manage and improve product offerings throughout their lifecycle using Agile methodologies
• Assess resource requirements for critical services
• Communicate product updates, critical incidents, CVEs, and risk items to stakeholders
• Represent the team in major incident calls and provide technical leadership during crisis situations
• Plan future capacity needs and optimise system performance through tuning and scaling activities
• Manage hardware and software lifecycle activities

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off