NetApp

Optimizes cloud infrastructure costs on AWS

Staff Technical Program Mgr

Program ManagementUpdated on Nov 14

Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

At least 12 years of experience driving complex software or hardware releases and project management from kickoff through go-live, with thorough knowledge of release phases, development and test cycles, milestone management, and quality metrics.
Hands-on release management expertise across multiple development methodologies and teams.
Strong knowledge of software and hardware development life cycles, testing methodologies, and automated configuration and code management systems.
Ability to identify release risks, determine mitigations, and trigger contingency plans while working through fast cycles and changing requirements and plans.
Strong data analytics, presentation, and communication skills, including negotiation, conflict resolution, facilitating decisions in complex situations, problem solving, and relationship building.
Hands-on experience using AI-based program management tools for automated status reporting and pattern or signal inference to manage risk.
Recognized subject matter expertise and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and lead cross-functionally.
Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline or business, plus at least 12 years of experience.

Responsibilities

Own complex medium-size or large software releases from development through production and beyond, partnering with Product Management, Engineering, and other stakeholders.
Drive releases on time and with quality; manage risks, cross-team dependencies, and schedule changes with documented mitigation; run milestone tracking, launch planning, and metrics dashboards.
Define milestone entry and exit criteria, defect and test metrics, and the codeline branching model with Engineering and DevOps.
Run Release Readiness, Milestone, and Go/No-Go reviews and provide recommendations.
Drive compliance with release and phase-review processes and intellectual property protection practices, including Legal and Privacy by Design, patent mining, GTC, third-party code, SDL, and ISO 9001.
Develop and improve release processes and metrics, and drive tooling improvements.
Support development teams' adoption of automation pipelines and experiment with AI-driven automation alongside tools teams.
Report status, risks, and mitigations to Product, Development and Quality, DevOps, and senior leadership, tailoring communications to the audience.
Negotiate goals, schedules, and resources, and hold teams accountable to agreed processes.
Mentor Release Managers as a release management subject matter expert; advise on cost, schedule, technical, and quality objectives; motivate teams; and operate where no precedent exists.
Make day-to-day release decisions independently and influence leaders up to VP level.

Desired Qualifications

An MS or MBA degree.
Experience with JIRA, qTest, PowerBI, and Jenkins.
Experience owning compliance programs, including SDL, third-party code, and ISO 9001.
Experience using AI tools for productivity and analysis.

Job Summary

Expert Release Manager (Technical Program Manager 5) to own complex medium-size or large software releases from development through production and beyond, partnering with Product Management, Engineering (Dev, Test, DevOps) and other stakeholders. Makes day-to-day release decisions independently, influences leaders up to VP level and mentors other Release Managers; decisions have a noticeable operational and financial impact.

Planning & ownership: Drive releases on time and with quality; manage risk, cross-team dependencies and schedule changes with documented mitigation; run milestone tracking, launch planning and metrics dashboards.
Governance & readiness: Define milestone entry/exit criteria, defect/test metrics and the codeline branching model (with Engineering/DevOps); run Release Readiness, Milestone and Go/No-Go reviews with a recommendation; drive compliance with NetApp release/phase-review processes and IP protection (Legal/Privacy by design, patent mining, GTC, third-party code, SDL, ISO 9001).
Process, tooling & automation: Develop and improve release processes and metrics; drive tooling improvements (JIRA, Jenkins, qTest, PowerBI); support Dev teams' adoption of automation pipelines; experiment with AI-driven automation alongside tools teams.
Communication & influence: Report status, risks and mitigations to Product, Dev/Quality, DevOps and senior leadership, tailored to the audience; negotiate goals, schedules and resources; hold teams accountable to agreed processes.
Mentorship & leadership: Mentor Release Managers as release management SME; advise on cost, schedule, technical and quality objectives; motivate teams; operate where no precedent exists.

Job Requirements

12+ years of experience driving complex software or hardware releases and project management from kick-off through Go Live, with thorough knowledge of release phases, dev/test cycles, milestone management and quality metrics.
Hands-on release management expertise across multiple development methodologies and teams; strong knowledge of software/hardware development life cycles, testing methodologies, and automated configuration and code management systems.
Able to spot release risk, identify mitigations and trigger contingency plans; comfortable running fast cycles while requirements and plans are still changing.
Strong data analytics, presentation and communication skills; strong soft skills: negotiation, conflict resolution, facilitating decisions in complex situations, problem solving and relationship building.
Hands-on use of AI-based program management tooling (automated status, pattern/signal inference to manage risk).
Recognized subject matter expert; works independently with minimal supervision and leads cross-functionally.
Nice to have: JIRA, qTest, PowerBI and Jenkins; owning compliance programs (SDL, third-party code, ISO 9001); using AI tools for productivity and analysis.

Education

Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline or business, plus 12+ years of experience; an MS or MBA is desirable.

About the Company

NetApp

Optimizes cloud infrastructure costs on AWS

Spot.io, part of NetApp, helps businesses manage cloud costs and infrastructure on AWS. It uses software that analyzes cloud usage and automates management to lower compute expenses, especially through AWS EC2 spot instances, which offer spare capacity at reduced prices. The product provides deep visibility into cloud spending, an AWS cost optimization calculator for estimating potential savings, and a free action plan tailored to each customer. Revenue comes from selling software licenses and consulting services. Target customers include enterprises using containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, KOPS, Docker Swarm, and OpenShift. The company aims to reduce cloud compute costs for customers while simplifying cloud operations and improving efficiency.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Acquired
Total funding: $53.2M
Headquarters: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Founded: 2015

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