SCS Product Owner IaaS and Operations

The Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) Project is looking for a Product Owner IaaS and Operations.
We aim to fill this position by June 2021. The Project is driven by a small team in the OSB Alliance with multi-year funding from the German Ministry for Economy and Energy (BMWi). This job offering is for hiring into this team. In addition to this team there are numerous engineers from various companies contributing to the project -- some of them paid through the project funding, some of them because their employer is interested in making this project successful.

The Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) Project is aiming to define and implement a complete, modular, secure, open-source software stack. It covers software-defined storage and networking, operations tooling for automated deployment, logging, monitoring, alerting, trending, identity and authorization management, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service layer, as well as Container(Platform)-as-a-Service layer. It allows users (development teams) to create and control their own kubernetes cluster through standardized APIs and delivers standard building blocks used to construct and manage container applications. This stack fulfills high security standards and comes with tooling and documentation that reduces the amount of specialized expertise required to run complex cloud and container infrastructure. SCS can be used by cloud service providers and internal IT teams alike and it can be deployed as a whole or by just cherry-picking needed components from it. The end result can be subjected to a certification process, ensuring strict compatibility with other SCS based platforms, thus building a network of federatable compatible clouds.

The SCS project is contributing to the pan-european GAIA-X effort, serving as reference for development work and enhancing it with an implementation that node-providers can leverage as a whole or in parts to deliver federated sovereign infrastructure, underpinning a sovereign data ecosystem.

In this role, you will

be part of a small central team that orchestrates the efforts to define, implement and validate (CI/CD) a stack of open source software
orchestrate a cross-cultural and cross-company team of engineers that contribute to the effort
have the role to work with stakeholders to understand the requirements, see how they can fit together in a coherent technical architecture and collect and prioritize the backlog
ensure that the needed research is performed to be able to take the right architectural decisions and document them
work with the developers in the development team as product owner, defining the user stories and acceptance criteria together and ultimately be responsible to drive the implementation efforts to completion.
ensure that the work results in software with all automation, configuration and tests for continuous automated deployment and testing
work with the relevant open source communities, typically part of the OIF and the LF

We expect that you

have hands-on experience with Open Source Operating Systems, Virtualization, and OpenStack, as well as standard tools to do configuration management and monitoring tools.
are experienced not just using such environments, but being in a responsible position to plan, deploy and operate them
are familiar with cloud workloads on top of IaaS platforms and know how Container platforms can be automated on top of OpenStack IaaS.
have been in leadership roles in engineering organizations
are connected to the relevant open source communities
are used to work in the open, exposing your work in progress to a broad community, accepting criticism and willing to work on defining and refining the chosen approach in interaction with the community, building (lazy) consensus
are familiar with open source development tools and platforms such as Git, GitHub and the related workflows
are experienced in using deployment automation and configuration management tooling such as Ansible and Terraform
have experience in using agile development methodologies
are willing and able to present complex technology on stage or in meetings

We offer

working in an open and inspiring environment, interacting with highly-skilled and driven individuals from the project, the partners and the relevant open-source communities
contributing to a project that will make a difference by being instrumental for a vivid ecosystem of federated infrastructure providers in Europe and beyond
being a key part of a new project
working on cutting-edge open source infrastructure technology
getting visibility by presenting the project to stakeholders and to the public on technology conferences
an adequate compensation package