SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud)

SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud)

Location: Dulles, VA

Must have an active Secret Security Clearance

Node is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Node is seeking a SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud) to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Responsibilities Include:

•Leading and collaborating within an Agile Scrum team as an Agile Release Train (ART) lead responsible for developing advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer

•Leading and facilitating team-related Agile events (PI Planning, Release Governance, Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, etc.) while maintaining all artifacts (Backlogs, Decisions, Blockers, etc.)

•Eliminating impediments and actively addressing issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the Program Increment (PI)

•Escalating as needed when blocking issues are beyond the team’s authority or require support from other teams

•Fostering a collaborative team environment through coaching & leading appropriately

•Leading and facilitating preparation & readiness for ART events (e.g., PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, etc.)

•Review high-quality technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product training

•Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities

•Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop, and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.

•Full lifecycle oversight of requirements-driven automation architecture.

Requirements

Required Skills:

•U.S. Citizenship

•Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

•Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

•Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading infrastructure as code (IAC) projects

•Experience communicating with program leadership

•Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills

•8+ years of professional experience in a technology-related field

•5+ years of direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous API=driven backends, infrastructure automation, and orchestration, event-driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration=driven deployments

•2+ years of experience in either AWS, MS Azure, or GCP

•Strong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integration

Desired Skills:

•Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level

•Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud-native tools like CloudFormation

•Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)

•Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows

•Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories

•Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines,

•AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience

•Experience designing and implementing event-driven microservice architectures

•Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects

•Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments

•Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience

•Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree-level education.

Desired Certifications:

•DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II

•Certifications related to Agile development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner

Company Overview:

Node.Digital is an independent Digital Automation & Cognitive Engineering company that integrates best-of-breed technologies to accelerate business impact.

Our Core Values help us in our mission. They include:

OUR CORE VALUES

Identifying the~RIGHT PEOPLE~and developing them to their full capabilities

Our customer’s “Mission” is our “Mission”. Our~MISSION FIRST~approach is designed to keep our customers fully engaged while becoming their trusted partner

We believe in~SIMPLIFYING~complex problems with a relentless focus on agile delivery excellence

Our mantra is “~Simple*Secure*Speed~” in the delivery of innovative services and solutions.

Benefits

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life
• Long-Term Disability
• Health Saving Account
• 401K
• Three weeks of PTO
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Pre-Approved Online Training