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