Senior Product Manager - Containers & Cloud

Commvault; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous professional development

Generous health benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Commvault is seeking a seasoned professional to manage the product lifecycle for container and cloud protection. The role involves hands-on discovery and validation, prioritizing product features based on customer impact, and driving technical discussions with engineering teams.

The successful candidate will have 8+ years in product management, deep expertise in Kubernetes and related technologies, and a commitment to collaborative development in a diverse workplace.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product management or engineering in enterprise software.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift deployments.
• Direct experience with container-native backup concepts.

Responsibilities

• Own the product lifecycle for container and cloud protection.
• Conduct technical discovery with enterprise customers.
• Build technical demos of container backup and recovery workflows.

Skills

Product management

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Data protection

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

kubectl

Helm

Terraform

Job description

What You’ll Do…

Product Execution

• Own the end‑to‑end product lifecycle for container and cloud protection – from discovery and requirements through launch and continuous improvement.
• Write precise, implementation‑ready PRDs and user stories grounded in your own understanding of container runtime behavior, Kubernetes scheduling, storage CSI internals, and backup/restore workflows.
• Validate solutions hands‑on: spin up clusters, reproduce customer issues, test recovery flows, and verify that what ships matches what was designed.
• Drive architecture and design discussions with engineering as a technical peer, evaluating trade‑offs between approaches such as snapshot‑based versus agent‑based backup or in‑cluster versus out‑of‑cluster control planes.
• Prioritize the backlog based on customer impact, technical feasibility, and competitive positioning.
• Define and validate requirements for cloud‑native protection and recovery across Kubernetes/OpenShift environments on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for scalability, multi‑tenancy, security posture, and recovery time objectives.

Customer & Market Insights

• Conduct deep technical discovery with enterprise customers, reviewing their cluster configurations, RBAC policies, storage classes, and recovery workflows to identify real gaps.
• Reproduce and diagnose customer‑reported issues in lab environments to validate product behavior and inform requirements.
• Gather and synthesize field feedback, customer requests, and partner input into prioritized, technically grounded product requirements.
• Perform competitive analysis with hands‑on depth, evaluating competitor products by running them, not just reading documentation.
• Participate in customer briefings and support go‑to‑market efforts with sales and marketing.

Technical Enablement

• Build and maintain working technical demos of container backup, restore, and disaster recovery workflows – including multi‑namespace, stateful application, and cross‑cluster scenarios.
• Author best‑practice guides and product documentation grounded in direct lab experience with production‑grade Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments.
• Support sales engineering with deep product and architecture knowledge to accelerate deals and resolve technical blockers.

Who You Are…

Essential Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of product management or engineering experience in enterprise software, cloud platforms, or data protection – with at least 3 years working directly with containerized environments.
• Hands‑on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters in production or lab environments, covering workload scheduling, persistent storage (CSI drivers, PVCs), networking (CNI, ingress, service mesh), and RBAC.
• Direct experience with container‑native backup and recovery concepts – application‑consistent snapshots, VolumeSnapshot APIs, Velero or equivalent tooling, and stateful application restore workflows.
• Proficient with kubectl and Helm; comfortable reading and writing Kubernetes manifests, YAML configurations, and Operators.
• Strong working knowledge of at least two major cloud platforms (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or Google GKE), including managed node groups, cloud storage integration, and IAM/identity mapping.
• Ability to set up and run a representative Kubernetes test environment independently to validate product behavior, reproduce customer issues, and evaluate competitive solutions.
• Can engage engineering teams as a technical peer – reviewing design docs, challenging architectural trade‑offs, and writing implementation‑ready requirements without hand‑holding.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with OpenShift‑specific features: OLM, OpenShift Virtualization, Route/Ingress differences, and SCC policies.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi, and CI/CD pipelines including GitOps workflows (Argo CD, Flux).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and their impact on backup and recovery network flows.
• Hands‑on experience with container storage interfaces, including Trident, Portworx, Rook/Ceph, or cloud‑native storage classes.
• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper‑V, Nutanix, or OpenShift Virtualization) and data protection in hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of compliance requirements relevant to containerized workloads (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and others).
• MBA preferred.

You’ll Love Working Here Because…

• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• An inclusive company culture and opportunities to join Employee Groups.
• Generous benefits supporting health, financial security, and work‑life balance.
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).

Commvault is an equal‑opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status and will not discriminate on the basis of any of these characteristics in the locations where we work.