Job Description

Overview

Product Manager II (L62) - Azure BCDR

Location:

Hyderabad / Bengaluru o

Org:

Azure Core - Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) o

Worksite:

Onsite

Why this role

Azure is the world's computer, and customers expect

resilience by design

. The Azure Core BCDR team delivers platform capabilities and experiences that

guarantee predictable recovery across zonal/region failures and ransomware scenarios

, spanning Azure Backup, Site Recovery and emerging resiliency experiences. You'll help shape and ship the capabilities that keep our customers' mission?critical workloads running--every day, everywhere.

Organization overview

Azure Core

builds the foundational substrate for Azure across compute, storage, networking, management and resilience. Teams focus on platform

quality, availability, capacity, efficiency

, and customer?facing control planes that are highly reliable and scalable.

Azure Core - BCDR

delivers end?to?end protection and recovery for IaaS, databases and cloud?native services, with investments and roadmaps covering

backup, site recovery, cross?region/zonal resiliency, ransomware recovery, and at?scale management

. The team partners across Azure Core and with field/customer teams to raise the resiliency baseline and provide

single?pane

management experiences.

Responsibilities

Role summary

As a PM II, you will

own a slice of the Azure BCDR customer problem space

--from problem definition and PRD/roadmap to execution with engineering and launch/landing with customers and field. You'll drive

clarity from ambiguity

, validate solutions with data and customers, steward

livesite

, and iterate quickly to deliver resilient, compliant, and usable experiences.

What you'll do (Responsibilities)

Own a customer problem area

in BCDR (e.g., zonal/region recovery workflows, ransomware?safe backups, posture & drills) and deliver clear

PRDs, OKRs, and roadmaps

aligned to Azure Core quality and resiliency goals.

Translate customer/regulatory needs

(RTO/RPO, test failover, evidence) into platform features and guidance, partnering across product groups and other stakeholders like Finance, Field, Business Planning, Support.

Drive end?to?end scenario design

for backup, restore, replication and recovery--including

cross?zone/region patterns

--and validate with telemetry, experiments, and customer previews.

Partner closely with engineering

to plan, deliver and safely roll out features using Azure Core safe?deployment practices; ensure

SLI/SLO

definitions and instrumentation support customer outcomes.

Own livesite quality

for your scenarios, and post?incident learning to improve patterns and product guardrails.

Land the product

with customers and field: content, demos, and

best?practice guidance

aligned to the

Well?Architected reliability pillar

and BCDR essentials.

Collaborate cross?Azure

(Compute, Storage, Networking, Security/Defender, Data) to unblock dependencies and deliver cohesive experiences at scale.

Contribute to PM craft

: crisp writing, storyboards, data informed decisions, and inclusive collaboration.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Required

5+ years

product/program management (or related)

AND

a Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or equivalent. Experience shipping

cloud platform or enterprise

features end?to?end (backlog PRD delivery) with engineering/design and measurable customer impact. Working knowledge of

BCDR or reliability

concepts (e.g., RTO/RPO, test failover, cross?zone/region patterns) and ability to translate them into customer experiences and docs. Demonstrated

data?driven decision making

(telemetry/experiments, field/customer feedback) and strong written communication.

Preferred

Experience with

Azure Backup

,

Azure Site Recovery

, or adjacent resiliency experiences. Exposure to

security & ransomware recovery

concepts (immutability, clean?room recovery, threat?informed restores). Hands?on with

IaaS/AKS/Database

scenarios or platform services that require high availability and disaster recovery. Experience collaborating across

Compute/Storage/Networking/Security

platform teams and with field/customer stakeholders.

What success looks like

Autonomous ownership

of a

multi?feature area

within BCDR; consistently delivers roadmap increments with high quality and clear trade?offs.

Customer?validated outcomes

: improvements in adoption and successful drills/recoveries for your scenarios; clear problem/solution narratives backed by telemetry and customer evidence.

Cross?discipline leadership

that generates energy, creates clarity in ambiguous areas (e.g., zonal testability, evidence for audits), and

delivers success

through crisp docs and cross?team execution.




This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



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