Product Owner

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: November 30, 2026
Work set up: 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. The role is responsible for defining the VMware product vision and strategy, with a strong focus on automation, availability, reliability, performance, and scalability. This position drives engineering excellence across VMware shared platforms supporting business-critical services, ensuring service sustainability, transformation, and Site Reliability Engineering initiatives are embedded across the team.

What you will do:

• Lead and mentor a team of VMware engineers within the POD structure.
• Manage people performance and support professional development within the team.
• Define and drive VMware product vision and strategy with emphasis on automation, reliability, performance, and scale.
• Design, deploy, and manage VMware technologies including vSphere, vCenter, vROPS, vRO, vRLI, and vRLCM.
• Oversee day-to-day operations, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of the virtual environment.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards and SRE best practices through platform constraints and system modelling.
• Drive automation initiatives using PowerCLI, Python, Ansible, and vRO workflows.
• Collaborate with operations, applications, engineering, connectivity teams, and vendors to deliver infrastructure solutions.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, and best practices.
• Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities.
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems to proactively manage platform health.
• Ensure system availability and performance in line with defined SLAs and SLOs.
• Monitor compliance, mitigate risks using tools such as vRealize Operations, and ensure adherence to regulatory standards and internal policies.
• Manage and improve product offerings throughout their lifecycle using Agile methodologies.
• Assess resource requirements for critical services and support service sustainability and transformation initiatives.
• 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 from planning and deployment to maintenance and decommissioning.