Defines and drives architecture, methodologies, standards, and engineering best practices for cloud software, infrastructure management, automation, and systems integration.
Provides technical and architectural leadership across private cloud, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, infrastructure orchestration, security, and lifecycle management, working with domain experts where deeper specialization is required.
Leverages recognized domain expertise and engineering judgment to influence complex technical decisions across products, platforms, and organizations.
Collaborates with executive leadership, product management, architects, and engineering teams to align technology initiatives with business and customer objectives and deliver measurable value.
Drives solutions to complex and ambiguous customer and engineering problems, balancing scalability, availability, security, performance, manageability, cost, customer experience, and time-to-market.
Champions continuous innovation, architecture and design excellence, automation, security, engineering quality, and reusable platform capabilities while contributing to the HPE technical community.
Provides strategic guidance and mentorship to senior technical teams, develops technical talent, and enables engineering teams to independently deliver high-quality outcomes.
Evaluates and promotes the practical adoption of emerging technologies, including Generative AI and Agentic AI, where they can improve infrastructure management, automation, operations, troubleshooting, customer experience, or engineering productivity
What you need to bring
Education and Experience Required
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a closely related quantitative discipline.
15+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated technical leadership and architecture experience in enterprise software, cloud, private cloud, or infrastructure technologies.
Knowledge and Skills
Deep expertise in cloud and distributed systems architecture, with proven ability to define technical strategy and architecture for complex enterprise and HPE Private Cloud solutions.
Broad understanding of private and hybrid cloud infrastructure, including Linux, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, resiliency, security, and lifecycle management, with deep expertise in one or more relevant technology domains.
Strong expertise in one or more areas such as cloud architecture, virtualization, infrastructure orchestration, automation, lifecycle management, distributed systems, storage, networking, or cloud management platforms.
Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and orchestration, including Day 0/1/2 operations, REST APIs, workflow automation, infrastructure-as-code, and extensible/plugin-based architectures.
Experience with virtualization and cloud-management technologies such as VMware, KVM, HPE VM Essentials, Morpheus, or comparable technologies. Candidates are not expected to be experts across every platform.
Strong software engineering and DevSecOps foundations, including CI/CD, automated testing and validation, observability, secure development, vulnerability management, upgrades, and production supportability.
Good understanding of Generative AI and Agentic AI concepts, with the interest and ability to apply emerging AI technologies to infrastructure management, automation, operations, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity.
Exceptional system-design, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound architectural trade-offs across scalability, availability, security, performance, manageability, customer experience, cost, and time-to-market.
Proven Senior Principal-level technical leadership, with the ability to influence architecture across product and organizational boundaries, bring together domain experts, mentor senior technical talent, and translate complex customer and business needs into scalable and reusable solutions.
Demonstrated innovation and technical thought leadership through major architectural contributions, reusable frameworks/platforms, patents, publications, technology incubation, or significant product innovations.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to articulate complex architectures, alternatives, risks, and trade-offs to engineers, product leaders, customers, partners, and executives.
Demonstrated ability to operate beyond an individual component or product, establish long-term technical direction, and connect technologies and teams across the HPE Private Cloud ecosystem to deliver sustained customer and business impact.
Accessibility
HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.
Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
What We Can Offer You
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Personal & Professional Development
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