Principal Cloud Developer

Principal Cloud Developer

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

In the HPE Hybrid Cloud, we lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for all of HPE. This includes managing the design, development, and product portfolio of our next-generation cloud platform, Green Lake. Working with customers, we help them reimagine their information technology needs to deliver a simple, consumable solution that helps them drive their business results. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

 

What you’ll do:

Senior individual-contributor technical leader responsible for end-to-end system and cloud architecture, providing organization-wide technical direction to Experts, senior engineers, and engineering teams. The role requires deep cloud/software expertise combined with broad system knowledge across compute, networking, storage, virtualization, security, operating systems, high availability, manageability, and cloud infrastructure. 

Responsibilities:

• Own and drive end-to-end architecture for complex cloud and infrastructure solutions spanning software, compute, networking, storage, virtualization, security, and management layers.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction to Experts and engineering teams, driving alignment across products and technology domains.
• Define reference architectures, interfaces, integration patterns, and engineering standards for scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable systems.
• Lead architecture/design reviews and drive critical decisions involving scalability, performance, availability, security, resiliency, and cost.
• Drive architecture for cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, distributed systems, APIs, Kubernetes, automation, observability, and infrastructure management.
• Identify cross-stack dependencies, failure modes, technology risks, and system bottlenecks and lead resolution of complex customer and production issues.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, drive proof-of-concepts and innovation, and influence multi-year technology and product roadmaps.
• Mentor and develop Experts and senior engineers, establish engineering best practices, and raise technical capability across the organization.
• Influence customers, product management, senior technologists, and leadership through clear articulation of architecture options, trade-offs, risks, and business value.

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 12-15 years of experience in product engineering, cloud infrastructure, systems software, platform engineering, or related R&D.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale, production-grade systems across multiple technology domains.
• Demonstrated technical leadership of senior engineers, Experts, architects, or multiple engineering teams.
• Experience driving major capabilities through architecture, development, deployment, lifecycle management, and customer adoption.

 

Knowledge and Skills:

• Deep expertise in cloud, hybrid cloud, distributed systems, and enterprise infrastructure architecture.
• Strong system-level understanding of servers/compute, networking, storage, virtualization, Linux/Windows, security, HA/DR, and manageability.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes/containers, REST APIs, microservices, databases, messaging, automation, CI/CD, and observability.
• Strong programming and design skills in one or more of Python, Java, Go, C/C++, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Expertise in scalability, performance, resiliency, fault tolerance, security, and system troubleshooting.
• Proven ability to remain technically hands-on through prototyping, architecture/design reviews, code reviews, and complex problem solving. The source Expert roles establish hands-on engineering and technical reviews as important expectations even at senior technical levels. 
• Strong ability to lead through influence, mentor senior technical talent, resolve architectural disagreements, and drive cross-team technical decisions.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and negotiate architectural decisions with senior engineering, product, customer, and executive stakeholders. 

Principal-level differentiator

Operates beyond component or domain expertise, owns system-level architecture and technical direction, and leads Experts and engineering teams across organizational boundaries while remaining hands-on on critical technical problems. 

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.

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

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Job Level:

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