Senior Product Mgr - Terraform on Z

Job Description

As a Senior Product manager you wi ead the strategy and deveopment of Terraform automation and infrastructure management soutions for the IBM z/OS patform. This roe invoves defining product vision, gathering user requirements from z/OS system administrators, and driving the roadmap for Terraform provider integration and automation workfows, ensuring seamess adoption and modernisation of mainframe infrastructure management.You wi be infuencing the adoption efforts by either directy connecting with the interna and externa customers Experience in defining the Product Strategy and Vision : Define and execute the strategy for this space, creating new primitives and workfows for resource discovery at scae . Deveop inteigent search capabiities to detect and identify unmanaged infrastructure across coud and on-prem environments. Buid native Terraform workfows that aow users to import unmanaged infrastructure seamessy , ensuring consistency across environments. Enabe rea-time compiance detection , aowing organizations to proactivey find and remediate non-compiant resources. Work cosey with Terraform Core and Coud teams to integrate new workfows into existing infrastructure management workfows Rea-Time Search and Resource Discovery: Buid highy reactive infrastructure detection capabiities , aowing teams to respond to changes in managed and unmanaged resources in rea-time. Enabe continuous inventory tracking , ensuring that a resources—whether defined in Terraform or not—are surfaced and cassified. Deveop Terraform-native discovery workfows , ensuring teams can easiy track which resources are managed, unmanaged, or in vioation of poicies. Workfow and Experience Design: Design first-cass search experiences that hep teams query, discover, and assess their infrastructure at scae. Create automated workfows that enabe users to bring unmanaged infrastructure under Terraform contro with minima friction. Provide visibiity into infrastructure state changes , ensuring organizations maintain compiance and avoid configuration drift . Proven track record of defining the Roadmap Prioritization and Deivery Own and manage the roadmap, prioritizing high-impact features that improve resource discovery and infrastructure governance . Deveop and maintain Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and coaborate with engineering to bring this new workfow to ife. Coaboration Across Terraform and Compiance Ecosystem: Partner with Terraform Core, Coud, and Poicy teams to enabe rea-time compiance detection for both managed and unmanaged infrastructure. Work with compiance and security teams to provide deep visibiity into infrastructure drift, misconfigurations, and poicy vioations . Go-to-Market Support : Coaborate with marketing, saes, and support teams to position this effort as standard for infrastructure discovery and compiance . Engage with Terraform practitioners and enterprise customers to iterate and refine search workfows based on rea-word infrastructure chaenges Required education Bacheor's Degree Required technica and professiona expertise 15+ years of experience with Mainframe (preferabe with system programming) or zOS Product Management or Product Deveopment experience, with responsibiity for researching feature vaue, deveoping features, and managing the ifecyce of offerings, preferaby on IBM Z or IBM Linux ONE 7+ years of product management experience with deveoper toos, infrastructure automation, coud security, or observabiity patforms . Proven track record of championing the voice of the customer (incudes conducting customer-driven usabiity studies and hypothesis-driven experimentation) Strong technica understanding of Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Coud Resource Management (AWS, Azure, Googe Coud) . Ideay, experience with search, indexing, and rea-time infrastructure discovery workfows . Strong technica acumen with a focus on buiding rea-time search experiences and automation-driven workfows . Experience coaborating with cross-functiona teams (engineering, design, security, and operations) to buid search-driven infrastructure toos. Proven track record of defining the Roadmap Prioritisation and Deivery (Defining PRDs, own/manage the roadmap, prioritising high-impact and infrastructure governance and coaborate with engineering to bring this new workfow to ife. Experience in defining the Product Strategy and Vision (Define and execute the strategy for this space, creating new primitives and workfows for resource discovery at scae . Deveop inteigent search capabiities to detect and identify unmanaged infrastructure across coud and on-prem environments. Buid native Terraform workfows that aow users to import unmanaged infrastructure seamessy , ensuring consistency across environments. Enabe rea-time compiance detection , aowing organizations to proactivey find and remediate non-compiant resources. Expertise in either the Security or Workoad/Appication Modernization topic areas. This experience coud be a wide range of possibiities demonstrating an understanding of the IBM Z security space or the DevOps and appication environment space on IBM Preferred technica and professiona experience Work with Hiring Manager to ID up to 3 buets max. You can get inspired by these few exampes beow. A/B Testing and Funne Metrics Mastery: Showcase experience in impementing A/B testing at scae, couped with the abiity to track and diagnose funne metrics. Prove a proven record of generating substantia growth through anaytics [INCLUDE AS REQUIRED FOR PLG ROLES]. Agie Product Management in Coud Environments: Bring forth prior Product Management experience in an Agie deveopment environment. Demonstrate a track record of driving significant product growth on a coud-focused patform. Exposure to DevOps/GitOps soutions, and proficiency in AWS, Azure, GCP, and/or Kubernetes is essentia for success. Optiona Product Line Specific Expertise (1-2 Buets): [Fee free to insert product ine specific knowedge or experiences that woud uniquey contribute to the quick ramp-up and impactfu performance of the roe.]