Product Owner Firewall

Are you an experienced engineer or engineering team lead looking to take the next step in your career? Join our technology department and guide engineers through the challenges of building and maintaining a technology platform with thousands of deployments distributed in over 180 countries. 

Product Owner Firewall

Your Mission 

As a Product Owner, your mission is to lead the Firewall team to bring Open Systems Firewall Services to the next level. You will participate and engage in shaping the products' vision, actively drive cross-team collaboration, and build the bridge to connect Product Managers, development teams and Customer Success teams to drive innovation and ensure a smooth user experience. As part of the Mission Control team, you’ll share operational duties with your colleagues. 

As Product Owner of the Firewall Team, you will be responsible for the technical well-being of the Firewall Service. As a leader, you will not only take care of focus areas, priorities, and incidents, you will also foster your team's well-being, performance and ensuring their professional development.   

Your Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers, providing guidance, coaching, and mentorship to ensure team success and individual growth.
• Oversee the planning, implementation, and maintenance of the firewall service.
• Serve as a point of contact for escalations and decision-making related to planning, operations, administration matters for your firewall service and team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, customer success and development teams, to define project requirements, prioritize tasks and ensure timely delivery.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the Firewall Team.
• Provide regular feedback to engineers on career development topics and conduct biannual review conversations setting SMART career development goals.

Your Qualifications 

For this position, we are looking for individuals with a track record of excellent communication skills and an interest in supporting engineers in problem-solving and career development.

• Higher education (university) with a degree in Computer Science or a related field 
• Knowledge of network protocols, routing and firewall technologies
• Experience with Linux or UNIX-based operating systems
• 5+ years of work experience in a related field
• Proven track record in leading development projects in an agile environment  
• Fluency in English 

Bonus Skills 

• Stream-based malware scanning
• Container and cloud technologies
• Technical expertise in linux netfilter stack
• Scrum Master

What we offer:

Want to join a crazy good cybersecurity team? You’ll be among people who believe in: 

Caring?PASSIONATELY?about keeping our customers safe – We’re dedicated to solving problems. Whatever it takes. 

Thinking?UNCONVENTIONALLY?to stay ahead – The world never fails to surprise us. So let’s surprise it first. 

Doing the hard work to make things?SIMPLE?– Craft and hone something that delights in its simplicity. 

Working?COLLABORATIVELY?to build success – The power of the team will always make us faster and better. 

As a testament to this, Open Systems has been recognized as an outstanding place to work. You’ll be surrounded by smart teams who enrich your experience and provide opportunities you will need to develop your skills and advance your career.? 

We look forward to receiving your online application (please note that you have to compress your application into two attachments). 

Come as you are! We search for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Open Systems welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. 

Direct applications only will be considered. 

About Open Systems:

Backed by the Service Experience Promise, Open Systems simply and cost-effectively connects and secures hybrid environments and thus ensures your organization can meet business objectives. Open Systems uniquely focuses on a superior user experience when helping organizations reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation. The Open Systems SASE Experience delivers on the promise of ZTNA with a comprehensive, unified and easy-to-implement and use SASE platform that combines SD-WAN and Security Service Edge delivered as a Service. We provide 24x7 operational management and engineering support from assigned engineering teams and ensure affordable and predictable costs.

Discover more at open-systems.com.

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