What are the responsibilities and job description for the ENSU Product Manager position at Gormat?
Seeking a Highly motivated and experienced Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the ENDLESSSUMMER (ENSU) platform. As a mission application hosting platform, ENSU is critical for accelerating the deployment of secure and reliable applications in USCYBERCOM's classified cloud environment. The Product Manager will be the voice of the user-including developers, operational units, and mission owners-translating their needs into a world-class platform that embodies excellence in cloud architecture. This role requires a strong technical background, a passion for building mission-critical products, and the ability to drive the entire product lifecycle in collaboration with enterprise architecture, engineering, and operations teams.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Product Vision & Strategic Roadmap: Develop and maintain a comprehensive product strategy aligned with the command's vision. Proactively incorporate emerging technologies and migration strategies (e.g., to JWCC) into the product plan.
- User-Centric Backlog Management: Conduct thorough user analysis to create and manage a prioritized product backlog. Translate user needs into epics and features that drive development.
- Architectural & Operational Excellence: Champion the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework across the product lifecycle.
- Reliability & Performance: Drive requirements for a resilient platform architecture that recovers automatically from failures and scales to meet changing workload demands.
- Security & Compliance: Work with engineering and cybersecurity teams to ensure the platform has a robust security posture, including identity management, data encryption, and continuous monitoring, while adhering to all policies for classified environments.
- Cost Optimization: Implement and oversee a financial management strategy for the platform. Drive cost-efficiency by ensuring right-sized infrastructure, eliminating waste, and providing cost visibility to tenants and leadership.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the primary interface between mission stakeholders, developers, acquisition personnel, and senior decision-makers. Facilitate collaboration to ensure successful platform delivery and evolution.
- Data-Driven Performance Analysis: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for platform usage, performance, reliability, and developer satisfaction. Use this data to inform product decisions and guide iterations.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as the team's expert on Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies, modern software development techniques, APIs, and the specific challenges of developing and deploying applications in classified cloud environments.
- Design and develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a STEM related technical field Bachelor's degree and 12 years of relevant experience or Master's degree and 10 years of relevant bexperience
- An additional 5 years of experience in product management, systems engineering, or solutions architecture with a focus on cloud-native product
- Direct experience with the AWS Well-Architected Framework (or equivalent) is highly desirable.At least one year of hands-on experience in GovCloud, C2S, or a similar regulated government cloud environment.
- Proven experience leading teams or developing under an Agile methodology (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban).
- Technical Skills:Strong understanding of cloud-native concepts and technologies (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, AWS, Azure).
- Deep familiarity with dataflows, integration patterns, and security within DoD or IC networks.
- Proficiency with product management and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Gitlab).
- Proficiency in system analysis and design; familiarity with UML is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to use data to drive product decisions and evaluate technical proposals.
TS/SCI with polygraph is required.
Salary : $191,500 - $206,500