Product Owner - DevOps Practice (Ansible)

Roles & Responsibilities : POSITION OVERVIEW We are seeking a highly technical, execution-driven Product Owner to champion our DevOps Practice. In this role, you will bridge the gap between strategic business objectives and technical execution. You will not just manage a backlog; you will shape the future of our automated infrastructure, deployment workflows, and continuous integration ecosystems. The ideal candidate possesses strong hands-on foundational experience or deep practical knowledge of modern DevOps topologies, automated deployment strategies, configuration management tools (specifically Ansible), and multi-cloud sync architectures. Equally critical are your soft skills: you must excel at Agile orchestration, high-impact communication, and navigating complex stakeholder dynamics to align engineering capabilities with business value. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 1. DevOps Strategy & Automated Deployments Advocacy ·       Serve as the domain expert driving the optimization of CI/CD pipelines, automated artifact deployments, and self-healing infrastructure. ·       Collaborate with tech leads to prioritize technical debt reduction, system architectural upgrades, and automated testing frameworks alongside feature delivery. ·       Incorporate Ansible playbooks and automation patterns into standard deployment roadmaps to achieve immutable, predictable environment provisioning.   2. Cloud Sync & Multi-Cloud Lifecycles ·       Define requirements for robust cloud sync mechanisms, cross-region replication, state management, and high-availability cloud storage/compute frameworks. ·       Ensure product roadmaps account for data consistency,