This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
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:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Networking Specialist to join our team focused on software solutions for our VM Essentials customers. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing Data Plane layer of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) enhancements to VM Essentials customers in highly scalable, enterprise private cloud-based, distributed architectures.
- Design and develop Data Plane features for SDN targeted at large enterprise customers
- Debug and fix software issues in highly scalable and performance intensive deployments
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams (Configuration and Control path) to ensure seamless integration
- Optimize performance of SDN in truly distributed, cloud based software architecture
- Opportunity to work with some of the networking gurus who have developed and authored cutting-edge solutions for ever evolving access network.
What you need to bring:
- Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in computer-science or related field.
- Excellent network software design capabilities, C/C++ programming, debugging skills and a strong systems programming background
- 4+ years of experience in developing new features and bug fixing on complex products in networking domain.
- Knowledge of L2 (EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN) and L3 (eBGP, iBGP, MP-BGP, MPLS)
- Experience with routing, Kernel and DPDK Forwarding Plane, Tunnel using MPLSoUDP, MPLSoGRE and VxLan
- Experience with XMPP, BGP, iBGP and NetConf
- Knowledge of EBPF
- Experience in debugging networking problems in complex systems involving multiple process/thread interactions including, but not limited to analysing crashes, scaling and performance issues, packet loss, memory leaks and memory corruption
- Proactive mindset and strong willingness to learn in addition to ability to think out of the box and adopt new software development tools and technologies
- Understanding of network architecture of enterprise cloud and experience in deploying applications in Kubernetes environment is a plus.
Additional Skills:
Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation and UX
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What We Can Offer You:
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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's OR master's degree in computer-science or related field
- Excellent network software design capabilities
- 4+ years of experience in developing new features and bug fixing in networking
- Knowledge of L2 and L3 networking protocols
- Experience with routing and Kernel/DPMK forwarding
- Experience debugging networking problems in complex systems
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hewlett Packard Enterprise and has not been reviewed or approved by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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Parental & Family Support — HPE is associated with extensive paid parental leave and transition options that allow a part-time return for an extended period, alongside supports like adoption and fertility resources. Family-oriented programs such as backup care are also part of the package, reinforcing day-to-day caregiving support.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing offerings include always-available virtual counseling, mindfulness resources, and fitness access, positioning mental health support as a visible benefit. “Wellness Fridays” and paid volunteer time add lifestyle-oriented time flexibility beyond standard PTO.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) match, alongside standard insurance coverage, which provides a baseline level of long-term financial support. An employee stock purchase option is also described, adding an additional savings mechanism for participants.
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What We Do
In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, college friends turned business partners, started the original Silicon Valley startup in the space of a rented Palo Alto garage. Starting with audio oscillators, the friends built the foundation for a company that would grow to become a global leader in enterprise technology. More than 75 years later, our success is exemplified through our employees’ drive to advance ideas that bring meaningful innovations to life for our customers and partners around the globe. We are guided by our mission to help customers use technology to turn ideas into value, and empower them to transform industries, markets and lives. We simplify Hybrid IT, power the Intelligent Edge and provide the expertise to make it all happen.
