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United Launch Alliance

Rockets for national security and NASA

Technical Product Owner 3 - Cloud

Technical Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCentennial, CO, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics field from an accredited college or university.
  • At least four years of related work experience.
  • 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 serving as a team-level Product Owner in a Scrum or Scaled Agile Framework team.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead team delivery, coordinate dependencies, and manage stakeholder priorities.
  • Strong ability to use 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, aligning it with Program Backlog priorities and strategic objectives.
  • Write and refine epics and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definitions of done, collaborating with Tech Leads on 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, including 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, including AWS and EKS, CI/CD pipelines, Software Configuration Management, 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 leading cloud migration or transition activities, Cloud Operations, and support of cloud-based systems in a mission-critical environment.
  • Experience driving LLM Ops and AI adoption, governance, cost control, and feature intake processes involving Solution Architecture integration.
  • Experience supporting AWS/EKS modernization, including optimization, observability, and team enablement for cloud-native workloads.
  • Ability to define and operationalize cloud on-call readiness, runbooks, process definitions, and shared responsibility models with IT Cloud Ops.

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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