Product Manager - Infrastructure

Vonage ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

* Travel Requirements: Light travel primarily to US (East Coast) * Organization: Vonage API Group Product * Location: London, UK Vonage Product Management Mission: We bridge technology and the business needs to deliver new products and services to the market. We imagine the future and orchestrate cross-functional efforts to bring it to life. We apply business understanding, customer knowledge and competitive awareness to collaborate with and lead efforts to envision, design, develop and execute state-of-the-art products and features. Our output changes the communications game. Why this role matters At Vonage API Platform Group we believe we've just scratched the surface of enabling developers to embed communications into any apps or devices using APIs. Vonage is looking for someone with hands-on experience building, scaling high available, global infrastructures to pivot to deliver best in class solutions for Vonage's platform. This position would suit a previous Architect or Senior Software Developer looking to take the next step up into a Product Management role. As part of the Vonage team, you will deliver groundbreaking platform products and features to drive the adoption of our CPaaS Platform across the globe. You will be providing the vision and strategy for key areas of the Vonage API Platform and working cross functionally to achieve your vision. IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU, CONTINUE READING BELOW..... What you will do Responsibilities * Own and deliver the Platform Infrastructure strategy for the Vonage API Platform Group * Plan and deliver global availability of the Platform including: * High availability * Regionalisation * Data isolation * Support Developer Operations and other Engineering teams in achieving operational excellence through: * Managing the Operations team's backlog prioritisation * Infrastructure reliability, scalability, performance and efficiency globally * Setting and pursuing platform service SLAs * Helping engineering teams to build and maintain robust tools, monitoring, alerting and testing capabilities * Work with other Product Managers, Dashboard, Business Intelligence, Business Operations, Support, Engineering, Finance & Legal teams to define and build the best-in-class platform solutions and operational excellence * Work with Engineering to oversee the delivery of new features and products * Integrate user and customer feedback and performance metrics continuously into plans * Understand the competitive landscape and how platform capabilities can enable Nexmo to differentiate from its competition What you will bring * Experience building API products or using APIs as a developer * Hands-on experience building, scaling high available infrastructures * Deep understanding about networks * Experience with a fast growing tech industry such as: * FinTech, Ecommerce or Payments * Telecommunications * Enterprise communications esp VoIP, Messaging, Unified Communications * Enterprise SaaS such as CRM, Analytics, Campaign Mgt, Collaboration * Experience architecting/operating solutions built on various cloud based IaaS providers (AWS, IBM, Google) * Experience in compliance, security and regularity needs of a global enterprise platform including but not limited to: ISO27001, SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR * Knowledge of key infrastructure technology including: Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, EKS (Kubernetes), Prometheus and Grafana * Excellent at building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders * Experience with cloud migration projects is preferred * Ability to communicate with simplicity, precision, and empathy * Knowledge around these areas (IaaS vendors, cloud configuration & monitoring tools, continuous integration & delivery, containerization, orchestration) * Experience with Agile methodologies & tools (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) * Experience using Jira, Confluence and project management tools What is required for application Required * Computer Science degree or similar technical qualifications * Minimum 5 years experience in a relevant sector and function * Minimum 2 years of Product Management experience * Previous software development experience at some point in your career * Experience building API products or using APIs as a developer Preferred * Masters Degree in Computer Science or Business Management Skills & Experience * Ability to work closely with DevOPS, SRE and Operation Teams * Consistent track record working in and delivering complex multi-stream projects * Highly analytical and at ease with influencing others through facts, insights and great presentation abilities * Self-Aware and confident in the unique blend of technology, market, business and relevant domain skills you bring to the table and how you want to develop as a leader * Learning mindset: not constrained to use only one set of technologies from previous e