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SRE Product Owner

Leidos Norfolk, VA

Norfolk, VA

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$92k - $167k/yr Full time DevOps DevSecOps Infrastructure As Code

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Job Description

Leidos is seeking a technically fluent Product Owner to lead and scale an SRE product organization supporting Transport site reliability for BAN/LAN/WLAN.

Responsibilities

Own, prioritize, and continuously refine the product backlog for the SRE Transport (BAN/LAN/WLAN) team, balancing customer needs, technical risk, operational stability, and mission priorities.
Translate stakeholder, customer, and program inputs into features, user stories, and acceptance criteria engineers can execute without ambiguity.
Coordinate with Product Owners across other Transport domains (WAN, boundary, NetOpsDev, etc.) to align roadmaps, manage dependencies, and resolve competing priorities.
Maintain and communicate a rolling roadmap for the Transport BAN/LAN/WLAN product line, covering capability investments, technical debt, and modernization efforts.
Make and defend prioritization decisions using technical dependency chain understanding (for example routing/switching changes, SD-WAN rollouts, WLAN upgrades), not only business value scoring.
Run SAFe Agile execution as the Product Owner: backlog grooming, sprint planning, story sizing, and sprint reviews.
Facilitate or actively participate in Agile ceremonies including DSUs, retrospectives, and Program Increment (PI) planning.
Develop and deliver PI objectives, demonstrations, and technical progress updates to program leadership and customer stakeholders.
Track delivery health (velocity, throughput) in ADO; proactively surface blockers, risks, and resourcing gaps.
Support change management by ensuring network-change, upgrade, and deployment backlog items are properly scoped, sequenced, and reflected in change tickets.
Manage day-to-day team performance and workload distribution for a team of 8–12 technical engineers.
Conduct 1:1s, performance check-ins, and contribute to formal performance review cycles.
Support staffing, onboarding, and ramp-up planning; identify and address skill gaps.
Coordinate on-call rotations and off-hours maintenance coverage to ensure staffing for scheduled and emergency work.
Own team administrative responsibilities such as timesheet/labor approvals, travel and training requests, and resource forecasting for program leadership.
Serve as the primary bridge between engineering and program/customer stakeholders, translating technical detail both ways.
Participate in engineering, architecture, and design reviews to represent the roadmap and ensure business and mission context informs technical decisions.
Support Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reviews for major incidents with a program and process lens; ensure remediation items are captured, prioritized, and tracked to closure in the backlog.
Coordinate Tier III escalation visibility with program leadership, ensuring critical customer-impacting issues are communicated with appropriate urgency.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of relevant professional experience, or at least 3 years experience as a Product Owner, Scrum Master, or technical program/project lead within a SAFe Agile framework.
Prior experience directly managing or leading technical teams of 5+ engineers.
Active Secret security clearance required.
Agile/Product Owner certification (examples: SAFe POPM, CSPO, PMI-ACP) or willingness to obtain within 90 days of hire.
DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II certification preferred (examples: Security+, CASP+, CISSP); required if the role involves privileged access to network management tools.
Working knowledge of enterprise BAN/LAN/WLAN and network boundary architecture sufficient to read designs, evaluate risk, and prioritize.
Understanding of defense-in-depth principles and network security prioritization.
Strong understanding of configuration management, change management processes, and lab validation workflows.
Proficiency with ADO for backlog, roadmap, and reporting management.
Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, and develop a team of 8–12 technical resources.
Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to translate technical detail for program leadership and customers.
Strong stakeholder management, including partnership with peer Product Owners to manage cross-team dependencies.
Strong analytical, prioritization, and conflict-resolution skills.
Ability to support occasional off-hours coordination for maintenance windows or major incidents.
Ability to travel up to 10%.

Technologies

SAFe, ADO, SD-WAN, Ansible, Python, IaC
Cisco networking certifications (CCNA/CCNP), Security+, CASP+, CISSP

Team Technical Scope (for context)

Configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of switches, routers, VLANs, wireless access points, firewalls, and network sensors.
Tier III escalation support and RCA for complex, multi-discipline incidents.
Configuration baseline management, DISA STIG compliance, and pre-production lab validation.
Product Owner is not expected to perform hands-on engineering, but must understand the work to prioritize, staff, and represent it accurately to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) network or comparable large-scale DoD network environment.
Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD) programs.
Prior experience as a Product Owner or technical lead within network engineering, SRE, or NetOps.
Familiarity with network automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), such as Ansible and Python, sufficient to evaluate backlog items.
Experience partnering with multiple Product Owners across a shared technical domain (for example a broader Transport or Network portfolio).
Active or prior Cisco networking certification (CCNA/CCNP) (plus, not required).

Pay and Benefits

Competitive compensation
Health and Wellness programs
Income Protection
Paid Leave
Retirement

Location: Norfolk, VA (onsite)

Salary: USD 92,300 - 166,850 per year

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