Senior Manager, Solution Engineering – Customer Validation & Solution Readiness

Overview

Lead solution engineering teams that validate networking solutions, customer deployment use cases, and release readiness across multiple product portfolios.

What you'll do

• Lead validation of networking solutions and customer deployment use cases.
• Execute solution validation roadmaps and deliver committed releases.
• Drive automation-first testing to improve coverage and engineering productivity.
• Partner with product, architecture, development, sales, and field engineering teams.
• Manage KPIs, resources, infrastructure utilization, and project priorities.
• Mentor technical professionals and develop team goals and performance plans.
• Promote automation, AI-assisted engineering, virtualization, and cloud-native validation.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of experience in networking, telecommunications, or software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience 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.
• Understanding of IP/MPLS, EVPN-VXLAN, routing protocols, data center networking, and network automation.
• Experience delivering networking products, customer solution validations, and release readiness programs.
• Excellent stakeholder, customer-facing, executive communication, and cross-functional collaboration 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 certification.

Details

• Onsite role primarily based at an HPE office.
• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.