Technical Product Owner - Platform

The Technical Product Owner for Cloud Platform Operations drives the strategy and roadmap for cloud based platform services, enabling DevOps pipelines, CI/CD tooling, observability solutions, and core infrastructure for modern applications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and operations to specify platform requirements.
• Translate reliability, scalability, and security needs into concrete platform features.
• Ensure the platform supports product teams through automation and governance.
• Define the cloud platform strategy with a focus on stability, self service, and engineering productivity.
• Create a roadmap for enhancements to DevOps pipelines, infrastructure as code, security tooling, and monitoring platforms.
• Champion modernization, automation, and cloud native architecture adoption.
• Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to align product goals with company strategy and technology standards.
• Own and maintain the technical product backlog; write user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical enablers.
• Prioritize backlog items to balance new features, technical debt reduction, infrastructure improvements, and performance gains.
• Maintain backlog visibility and transparency for all team members.
• Balance operational needs with initiatives focused on innovation.
• Own and maintain the Product Catalog and documentation, ensuring capabilities, features, integrations, and service offerings are current and mapped to the roadmap.
• Collaborate with engineering during sprint planning, refinement, and review sessions.
• Act as the primary contact for clarifying requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with architects and developers to validate design and implementation decisions.
• Lead planning sessions for new platform capabilities and infrastructure initiatives.
• Leverage Azure cloud services, infrastructure as code (Terraform/Bicep), containerization, and Kubernetes.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, Git based workflows, and build/release automation.
• Apply monitoring, logging, APM tools, and platform reliability engineering principles.
• Support DevOps and Azure optimization and automation initiatives to improve delivery velocity and reliability.
• Provide clear visibility into platform health, upgrades, risks, and release timing.
• Translate technical concepts into language understandable by leadership.
• Facilitate cross team alignment for platform governance, security, and lifecycle management.
• Identify opportunities to increase engineering velocity and reduce deployment failures.
• Promote best practices around DevOps, cloud security, and operational resilience.
• Drive continuous optimization of pipeline performance, cost efficiency, and infrastructure automation.
• Analyze performance metrics, incident data, and user feedback to guide iteration and improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3–7 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or technical product ownership.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, IaC tools, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring frameworks.
• Familiarity with container platforms, microservices, and cloud security principles.
• Strong ability to translate operational requirements into platform capabilities.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non technical audiences.

Technologies

• Azure
• Terraform
• Bicep
• Kubernetes
• Containerization
• Git-based workflows
• CI/CD pipelines
• .NET
• SQL Server
• Build/release automation

Position Type

• FTE - permanent

Location

• Tulsa, OK (hybrid onsite)

Preferred

• Experience in healthcare, financial services, or other data intensive environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise grade technologies such as .NET and SQL Server.
• Certifications like Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or equivalent.