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Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the technical architecture and long-term technology strategy for HPE’s data center networking portfolio, including SONiC-based solutions, open networking platforms, and AI networking infrastructure.
- Lead architectural design and technology decisions across networking hardware, network operating systems, cloud-native software, automation frameworks, observability, and management platforms.
- Translate customer, market, and business requirements into scalable architectures and platform capabilities with product management.
- Establish architectural standards, design principles, performance requirements, and system-level tradeoffs with engineering teams.
- Drive architecture reviews and provide technical leadership across multiple product and engineering teams.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and competitive solutions to identify innovation opportunities.
- Define reference architectures for enterprise, cloud provider, service provider, and AI data center environments.
- Balance scalability, reliability, security, operational simplicity, and time-to-market in roadmap decisions.
- Engage strategic customers and partners to understand deployment requirements and validate architectural direction.
- Coordinate end-to-end architectural alignment across hardware, ASIC, software, security, and systems teams.
- Mentor principal engineers and senior technical leaders and help build the organization’s architectural community.
- Represent HPE Networking in customer briefings, executive reviews, industry forums, standards organizations, and technical conferences.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in data center networking, including switching, routing, network operating systems, and large-scale network deployments.
- Strong understanding of open networking architectures, SONiC, Linux-based networking systems, and modern network automation frameworks.
- Experience developing architectures for enterprise, hyperscale cloud, AI cluster, high-performance computing, or service provider environments.
- Knowledge of networking silicon, ASIC architectures, packet processing pipelines, and hardware/software interaction models.
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems.
- Proven ability to influence engineering, product, and executive stakeholders through technical leadership and architectural vision.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to technical and business audiences.
- Experience leading architecture reviews, technical strategy development, and cross-functional technology initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is required.
- Advanced degree, hands-on SONiC development or deployment, AI/ML networking, GPU fabrics, large-scale AI infrastructure, cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, container networking, microservices architectures, network automation, observability, telemetry, intent-based networking, standards bodies, open-source communities, or networking ecosystem initiatives are preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, financial, and emotional wellbeing benefits for employees and their loved ones.
- Personal and professional development programs supporting career growth and movement across divisions.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring an average of two days per week from an HPE office.
- Inclusive workplace focused on varied backgrounds, individual uniqueness, and flexible management of work and personal needs.
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About HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) builds enterprise IT infrastructure and services, including servers, storage, networking (Aruba), and hybrid edge-to-cloud platforms like HPE GreenLake for businesses and public-sector organizations. Formed in 2015 after Hewlett-Packard’s split, HPE is headquartered in Houston, Texas and trades on the NYSE. It sells hardware, software, and subscription-based managed cloud services to help customers run workloads across data centers, colocation, and public clouds.