Senior Manager, Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation

Overview

Lead solution engineering for customer validation of networking solutions and deployment use cases. Manage technical teams, delivery roadmaps, release readiness, and cross-functional execution.

What you'll do

• Lead engineers validating networking solutions across product portfolios.
• Execute solution validation strategies and delivery roadmaps.
• Drive release quality, scalability, and customer deployment readiness.
• Establish project planning, risk management, milestone tracking, and execution reviews.
• Partner with product, architecture, development, sales, and field engineering teams.
• Lead, mentor, and develop technical engineering professionals.
• Promote automation, AI-assisted engineering, virtualization, and cloud-native validation.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of experience in networking, telecommunications, or software engineering.
• At least 5 years leading and managing technical engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong expertise in Juniper networking technologies and customer deployment models.
• Expertise in routing, data center networking, network automation, Python, APIs, containerization, and Kubernetes.
• Experience delivering networking products, customer solution validations, and release readiness programs.
• Strong customer-facing, executive communication, planning, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Master's degree.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices and tools.
• Experience with Cisco, Arista, Nokia, or equivalent networking platforms.
• JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP, CCIE, or equivalent certifications.

Details

• Onsite role with primary work from an HPE office.
• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.