Technical Proxy Product Owner (Cloud & Hybrid Connectivity) (m/f/n)

This role is for a Technical Proxy Product Owner to work with a European Union institution located in Luxembourg. The product involves providing and operating cloud infrastructure, initially on AWS and extending to Microsoft Azure, with a focus on cloud and hybrid connectivity including interconnection services via partners.

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, networking, cloud, or related technical domains.
• 3+ years of practical cloud infrastructure experience, preferably with AWS.
• Significant experience with enterprise networking and BGP.
• Practical exposure to hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Experience working with architects and senior engineers.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform.
• Experience using Git-based CI/CD workflows, including GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience working in complex environments with multiple infrastructure teams.
• Ability to convert business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Experience reviewing technical designs and identifying risks or missing requirements.
• Experience in large-scale, regulated, or security-sensitive environments is highly desirable.
• At least one major Cloud certification such as AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, or Azure Network Engineer Associate.
• At least one advanced networking credential or equivalent proven expertise such as CCNP Enterprise, ENARSI, ENCC, JNCIP, or AWS Advanced Networking Specialty.
• Practical production experience with Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, BGP, and hybrid cloud networking.

Product Ownership and Customer Interface:

• Understand customer business and infrastructure requirements.
• Translate requirements into product capabilities, epics, features, and actionable backlog items.
• Establish clear acceptance criteria.
• Clarify requirements before engineering work starts.
• Prioritize the backlog together with the Customer Product Owner.
• Identify technical prerequisites and external dependencies.
• Ensure architecture and engineering activities align with product priorities.
• Communicate technical constraints, risks, and alternatives in understandable language.
• Provide transparency on delivery status, risks, dependencies, and technical debt.

Architecture Challenge and Technical Governance:

• Review and challenge proposed cloud and connectivity architectures.
• Distinguish between a technically functional solution and a production-ready, secure, resilient, and maintainable service.

Cloud Infrastructure:

• Understand AWS Organizations, multi-account architectures, VPC design, subnets, routing tables, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN connectivity.
• Manage PrivateLink, VPC endpoints, Route 53, DNS integration, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway.
• Understand Security Groups, Network ACLs, IAM concepts, cross-account access.
• Familiarity with availability zones, regional architectures, high availability, disaster recovery.
• Understand cloud monitoring, logging, infrastructure automation, cloud cost drivers, and basic FinOps.

Networking and Hybrid Connectivity:

• Discuss routing policies with network architects, understand BGP impacts.
• Knowledge of cloud interconnection models like AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Equinix Fabric.
• Understand cloud exchange/interconnection services, colocation environments, redundant physical and logical connectivity, BGP-based cloud connectivity.

Infrastructure as Code and Automation:

• Understand Infrastructure as Code, review implementation approaches.
• Comfortable with GitLab repository structure, Merge Requests, CI/CD pipelines.
• Able to read Terraform plans.
• Use NetBox as Source of Truth.
• Understand IP Address Management, prefixes, VLANs, devices, interfaces, sites, tenants, relationships between inventory data and automation.
• Familiarity with API-driven integrations, prefer automation that consumes authoritative data.
• Challenge manual configuration outside the agreed Source of Truth.

Cross-Squad Coordination:

• Coordinate requirements and dependencies with other technical products and squads.
• Think end-to-end beyond Cloud squad boundaries.

Security, Resilience and Operational Readiness:

• Challenge solutions from an operational perspective.
• Ensure solutions are operable, observable, recoverable, and supportable in production.

Relocation to Luxembourg is required.