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Senior Product Manager - Containers & Cloud

United States

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About Commvault 

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. 

About Commvault 

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks -- keeping data safe and businesses resilient. Our unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. 

The Opportunity... 

Commvault is looking for a Senior Product Manager to define and deliver data protection capabilities for our container and cloud portfolio. This is a deeply technical role -- you have built, operated, or protected Kubernetes workloads in production and can engage engineering at the architecture level without losing a step. You will own product execution for Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native environments -- writing precise requirements, validating solutions hands-on, and shipping capabilities that improve resiliency, recovery performance, and operational simplicity. If you need a diagram explained to you, this is not the role. If you are the one drawing the diagram, read on. 

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 -- not as a facilitator, but as a technical peer who understands the 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 actual cluster configurations, RBAC policies, storage classes, and recovery workflows to identify real gaps, not just reported symptoms. 
  • 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 actually 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 -- including 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, opportunity to join our Employee Groups  
  • Generous benefits supporting your health, financial security, and work-life balance 
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

 

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now! 

 

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Pay Range

$123,250 - $247,250 USD

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