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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)
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Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications, including your relevant experience, skills, and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation, it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience.
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