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United Launch Alliance

Rockets for national security and NASA

Technical Product Owner 3 - CI/CD Infrastructure

Technical Product ManagementUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeCentennial, CO, USA$113.1k - $188.5k

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field from an accredited college or university is required.
  • At least 4 years of related work experience is required.
  • Strong backlog management and user-story writing discipline, with comfort operating at execution-level detail.
  • Technical fluency to engage substantively with Tech Leads and Solution Architects about feasibility and tradeoffs.
  • Experience in a Scrum or SAFe team-level Product Owner capacity.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead team delivery, coordinate dependencies, and manage stakeholder priorities.
  • Ability to leverage metrics such as burn-up/down and unplanned versus planned work to improve predictability and delivery quality.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the team-level backlog, ensuring alignment with Program Backlog priorities and strategic objectives.
  • Write and refine epics and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definition of done, collaborating with Tech Leads for technical feasibility and sequencing.
  • Represent customer and business needs in day-to-day team decisions and Agile ceremonies.
  • Lead sprint planning, delivery, and roadmap execution; coordinate dependencies and manage stakeholder priorities.
  • Accept completed work against acceptance criteria, escalate scope or priority conflicts as needed, and produce reporting for assigned areas.
  • Develop and maintain RAID logs, support continuous improvement, and drive measurable outcomes across delivery scope.
  • Facilitate onboarding, enablement, and upskilling for new team members and roles.
  • Lead cross-team coordination for migration, modernization, and operational support initiatives, such as GitLab migrations, cloud operations readiness, and build-pipeline reliability.

Desired Qualifications

  • Work with architects to define medium- and long-term technical roadmaps and convert them into actionable backlog updates.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/EKS), CI/CD pipelines, Software Configuration Management (SCM), and DevSecOps practices.
  • Familiarity with migration leadership, build discipline, and operational support excellence.
  • Exposure to configuration management, version control, and automation tools such as GitLab, Bamboo, SonarQube, and JFrog.
  • Ability to drive continuous improvement, mentor peers, and propose scalable solutions.
  • Hands-on experience leading vision across stakeholders and workflows.
  • Experience owning and evolving complex business logic and domain features, with system-level thinking and proactive risk identification.
  • Experience with GitLab infrastructure management, including shared repository patterns, migration tooling, and enterprise-scale GitLab administration.
  • Knowledge of static code analysis platforms such as SonarQube and their integration into CI/CD workflows, including quality-gate configuration and reporting.
  • Familiarity with secure coding standards (NIST SP 800-53, CMMC), DAST tooling integration, and security compliance reporting for development teams.
  • Background in infrastructure upgrade planning and execution with minimal disruption to active development teams, balancing feature work with maintenance windows.

About the Company

United Launch Alliance

Rockets for national security and NASA

ULA builds launch vehicles for national security, NASA and commercial space missions. Its rockets are designed to reach challenging and distant orbits and deliver highly accurate payload insertions, offering wide orbital flexibility for different mission profiles. The company’s approach centers on providing reliable, direct-to-orbit capabilities tailored to meet customers’ needs for secure national missions, space agency programs, and commercial launches. The goal is to expand access to space by offering dependable, precise launches that can place payloads into the specific orbits required by each mission.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$1.6B
Headquarters
Centennial, CO
Founded
2006

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