Digital Product Owner

We are looking for a Senior Product Owner for a company in Gothenburg. Start is ASAP, 23 months limited contract.

Assignment description

The Cloud & Infrastructure Technical Product Owner will lead the technical strategy, design, and implementation of the company's cloud infrastructure. This role will play a critical part in advancing the company’s cloud-first strategy, with a strong emphasis on automation, scalability, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The role must bring expertise cultivated from a developer and engineering perspective. Given the size of the team, the Product Owner will contribute as a developer in the team.

As an influential technical leader, the Product Owner will ensure the delivery of secure, efficient, and scalable cloud-and on-prem hosting services, collaborating across teams and mentoring engineers to drive good automation practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Ownership:

• Take ownership of the technical roadmap for the company’s infrastructure, delivering on the cloud-first vision while prioritizing automation and IaC principles.
• Implement streamlined, high-performing resource provisioning processes and maintain high levels of reliability and security.

Technical Collaboration:

• Collaborate with teams across Data & Analytics, Network Services, digital product teams to integrate cloud infrastructure solutions into the application landscape.
• Facilitate workflows and automation pipelines using source control and CI/CD tools like GitHub Enterprise.
• This role is expected to have a strong technical collaboration across the company including the technical lead community.

Mentorship & Enablement:

Provide informal mentorship to engineers, empowering them with good practices in cloud automation, IaC, and DevOps.

Serve as a technical thought leader, driving innovation and advocating for continuous improvement in cloud practices.

Cost and Vendor Optimization:

Evaluate vendors and technologies to ensure alignment with performance needs and cost management goals.

Skill requirements:

• Cloud Platforms: Azure architecture and services (Functions, VMs, networking, storage, AKS, automation)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep, Ansible principles and usage.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Concepts, pipelines, and integration (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Monitoring & Observability: Zabbix, Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Product Ownership Practices: Backlog management, prioritization, stakeholder engagement, roadmap definition.



Experience:

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering, with significant experience implementing IaC solutions within Azure environments.
• Proven ability to align cloud strategy with business objectives.
• Delivered large-scale platform automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code.
• Designed and implemented observability frameworks for multi-environment platforms.
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams including developers, operations, business, and security.

Skills:

Strategic thinking with a technical depth in cloud & infrastructure.

Strong leadership and influencing abilities without direct authority.

Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Hands-on capability with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and modern DevOps tools.

Skilled in translating business needs into robust, scalable technical solutions.

Forward-thinking, curious and tech savvy with proven ability to build great relationships and get results from working with others.

This role requires fluency in English, both written and spoken.

This is a full-time consultant position in Gothenburg through Incluso. Start is ASAP, 23 months limited contract to begin with, with possibility of extension after that. This role is 75% onsite in Gothenburg. Please submit your CV as soon as possible since we will review the applications on an on-going basis.

For more information about this role, please contact Emma Hörnsten  recruiter at Incluso.