Sr. Principal Cloud Developer

Overview

Senior Principal Cloud Developer in HPE's Hybrid Cloud organization, leading architecture and technology direction for the GreenLake cloud platform and its private cloud ecosystem.

What you'll do

• Lead the identification, evaluation, and adoption of emerging technologies, architectural approaches, and strategic technical investments to drive innovation and competitiveness.
• Define and drive architecture, methodologies, standards, and engineering best practices for cloud software, infrastructure management, automation, and systems integration.
• Provide technical and architectural leadership across private cloud, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, infrastructure orchestration, security, and lifecycle management, working with domain experts where deeper specialization is required.
• Leverage recognized domain expertise and engineering judgment to influence complex technical decisions across products, platforms, and organizations.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, product management, architects, and engineering teams to align technology initiatives with business and customer objectives and deliver measurable value.
• Drive solutions to complex and ambiguous customer and engineering problems, balancing scalability, availability, security, performance, manageability, cost, customer experience, and time-to-market.
• Champion continuous innovation, architecture and design excellence, automation, security, engineering quality, and reusable platform capabilities while contributing to the HPE technical community.
• Provide strategic guidance and mentorship to senior technical teams, develop technical talent, and enable engineering teams to independently deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Evaluate and promote the practical adoption of emerging technologies, including Generative AI and Agentic AI, where they can improve infrastructure management, automation, operations, troubleshooting, customer experience, or engineering productivity.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a closely related quantitative discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated technical leadership and architecture experience in enterprise software, cloud, private cloud, or infrastructure technologies.
• Deep expertise in cloud and distributed systems architecture, with proven ability to define technical strategy and architecture for complex enterprise and HPE Private Cloud solutions.
• Broad understanding of private and hybrid cloud infrastructure, including Linux, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, resiliency, security, and lifecycle management, with deep expertise in one or more relevant technology domains.
• Strong expertise in one or more areas such as cloud architecture, virtualization, infrastructure orchestration, automation, lifecycle management, distributed systems, storage, networking, or cloud management platforms.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and orchestration, including Day 0/1/2 operations, REST APIs, workflow automation, infrastructure-as-code, and extensible/plugin-based architectures.
• Experience with virtualization and cloud-management technologies such as VMware, KVM, HPE VM Essentials, Morpheus, or comparable technologies; candidates are not expected to be experts across every platform.
• Strong software engineering and DevSecOps foundations, including CI/CD, automated testing and validation, observability, secure development, vulnerability management, upgrades, and production supportability.
• Good understanding of Generative AI and Agentic AI concepts, with the interest and ability to apply emerging AI technologies to infrastructure management, automation, operations, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity.
• Exceptional system-design, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound architectural trade-offs across scalability, availability, security, performance, manageability, customer experience, cost, and time-to-market.
• Proven Senior Principal-level technical leadership, with the ability to influence architecture across product and organizational boundaries, bring together domain experts, mentor senior technical talent, and translate complex customer and business needs into scalable and reusable solutions.
• Demonstrated innovation and technical thought leadership through major architectural contributions, reusable frameworks/platforms, patents, publications, technology incubation, or significant product innovations.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to articulate complex architectures, alternatives, risks, and trade-offs to engineers, product leaders, customers, partners, and executives.
• Demonstrated ability to operate beyond an individual component or product, establish long-term technical direction, and connect technologies and teams across the HPE Private Cloud ecosystem to deliver sustained customer and business impact.

Details

• Hybrid work: on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
• Location: Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India.
• Job level: TCP_06; job family: Engineering.