Software Product Owner

Peraton has a great opportunity for a Software Product Owner in Chantilly VA supporting our Intelligence Community (IC) customer. At the heart of national security weve been embedded into this cuttingedge program for nearly a decade. You will be working in a rewarding mission focused environment cutting edge software design development and deployment contributing to the protection and defense of national space assets. Your efforts will fundamentally change what Space Domain Awareness and Mission Protection means for our Nation.

Skyfire is a Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system. Its purpose is to establish a repository of resident space objects (RSOs) find RSOs of interest and provide data to ground operators. Located in Chantilly VA the Skyfire team uses: sensor modeling and systems engineering expertise to deliver this worldclass SDA I&W system.

What youll do:

• Product Owner supporting internal and USG users in at least one of the following enterprise technology areas:
• Infrastructure automation (Ansible CloudFormation Kubernetes)
• Cloud management and deployment DevSecOps pipelines
• Ensures requirements comply with Agency requirements and government standards through formal verification methods
• Translates high level CI/CD strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lowerlevel detailed implementation requirements
• Establishes and coordinates development of standards practices and procedures as related to the overall product development
• Coordinates with other software development elements to define and coordinate development efforts
• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts
• Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
• Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures
• Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements
• Provide subject matter expertise to small experienced infrastructure automation team
• Develop documentation and processes for daytoday operational support
• Collaborate with product owners and engineers to ensure cloud computing best practices are followed and applied. Initiate client troubleshooting sessions and recommend technical solutions for how to resolve
• Communicate and enable cloud infrastructure service consumption to customers

Specific but not all inclusive duties include:

• Lead scrum teams as the Product Owner
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Define product vision roadmapand growth opportunities
• Assess value develop cases and prioritize stories epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Travel up to 10

Required Qualifications:

• Associates degree and 7 years of experience; OR bachelors degree and 5 years of experience; Four 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelors degree.
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of TS/SCI clearance with ability to pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request Contract requires TS/SCI with poly. The candidate must maintain the clearance.
• 5 years of experience using Kubernetes Rancher and Docker for development and deployment efforts.
• Broad understanding of and experience with Containerization Application Development and DevOps is required
• Willingness to work as part of a USdistributed team
• RealWorld experience architecting an AWS Cloud migration or new implementation to AWS Cloud (i.e. not just consuming Cloud services but developing the implementation from scratch)
• Handson experience writing playbooks with Terraform Ansible or other IaC and automation toolsets to build change and version application infrastructure
• CI/CD Orchestration experience (Jenkins or GitLab preferred)
• Working knowledge of cloud services in PaaS SaaS and IaaS as well as trends in the cloud space
• Familiarity with Agile SAFe methodology

Desired qualifications:

• Desire a degree in computer science or software engineering
• Certified in at least one Agile SAFe certifications
• An Information Assurance (IA) certification in accordance with DoD 857001.M Cyber Workforce Management guidelines for IA Technical (IAT) or IA Manager (IAM) levels

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton is a nextgeneration national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.