Senior Cloud Developer

  

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:

   

Job Family Definition:

The Cloud Developer builds quality products from the ground up through test plans, automation to meet the needs of mission-critical applications and is always looking for innovative approaches to deliver end-to-end technical solutions to solve customer problems.

Brings technical thinking to break down complex data and to engineer new ideas and methods for testing, automating, debugging and implementing cloud-based solutions.

Collaborates with project managers, test engineers, development partners and cross functional teams to ensure effective and efficient quality delivery, deployment, configuration, monitoring and support of Cloud engagements.

The Cloud Developer provides business value expertise to drive the development of innovative service offerings that enrich HPE's Cloud Services portfolio across multiple systems, platforms, and applications.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions impact technical components of HPE products, solutions, or services regularly and sustainable. Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Provides expertise and partnership to functional and technical project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Exercises significant independent judgment to determine best method for achieving objectives. May provide team leadership and mentoring to others.

What You'll Do:

Lead and create test strategies for switch software and cloud deployment. Test cloud software systems across various platforms, execute cases covering functionality, compliance, negative, solution, integration, scale, interoperability and performance scenarios.

Design, build and maintain automated test suites and test infrastructure for hyperscale, multi‑cloud environments. Implement test orchestration, environment provisioning and CI/CD integration.

Review and validate test plans, test cases and QA artifacts against product architecture and quality objectives; identify implementation gaps early and collaborate with development teams to mitigate risks.

Own quality reviews of team deliverables — defects, test reports and automation scripts — and provide timely, actionable feedback to improve test coverage and reliability.

Establish guidelines and standards for testing programmable networks and APIs, including REST, GraphQL, YANG, gRPC, and AI‑driven test scenarios.

Drive innovation and adoption of new tools, frameworks and automation technologies across the cloud QA organization to increase efficiency and reduce flakiness.

Lead strategic QA initiatives that address real customer challenges (e.g., high‑availability failures, brownfield migrations, scale issues) and translate findings into improvements and preventive checks.

Troubleshoot complex issues in customer deployments and lab environments using strong debugging, log analysis and diagnostic techniques; develop reproducible tests and automated regression checks.

Represent the QA organization in technical forums and design/architecture reviews; advocate for observability, testability and fault tolerance. Provide tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate risks.

Innovate new ideas and tools that improve product quality and help business with cost optimization. 

Apply deep solution expertise to proactively test against known deployment pain points.

Effectively collaborate and communicate with management, across teams, and development partners.

Continuously identify and prioritize opportunities to optimize test processes, reduce cycle time, and strengthen product quality.

Contribute to sustaining and enhancing existing features while balancing new development and technical debt remediation.

Mentor and coach engineers and QA peers, provide guidance on testing best practices, and empower, elevate team capabilities through knowledge sharing.

What You need to bring:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field from a reputed institution.

10–15 years of hands‑on QA testing and automation experience, with a proven track record of delivering high‑quality software on schedule in both waterfall and agile methodologies.

Demonstrated Cloud architect experience, architecting large-scale test and automation programs.

Strong expertise in solution testing, including designing test topologies, deploying and validating systems, and debugging/troubleshooting across networking and cloud environments. Practical experience with greenfield deployments, brownfield migrations, and production considerations such as scale, performance, and latency for cloud environments.

Direct experience diagnosing and resolving customer issues in live production environments.

Solid background in Network Management System (NMS) and core networking technologies and protocols (routing, switching). Areas like IP, VLAN, LACP, STP/MSTP, BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, QoS, Multicast, High Availability and Stacking systems.

Advanced automation and programming skills (Python, Cypress preferred, or equivalent). Experience designing and building automation infrastructure, architecture, and strategy from the ground up.

Advanced knowledge with at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and common services used for testing and deployment.

Experience with Kubernetes‑based test orchestration and CI/CD pipelines for networked/clouded systems.

Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and debugging abilities.

Hands‑on experience applying AI/ML techniques for test optimization and intelligent synthetic data generation.

Deep understanding of the product development lifecycle and technical requirements, with solid foundations in computer architecture, data structures, and software engineering best practices.

Proven experience in a technical leadership role, driving customer issues resolution, actively contributing technically while mentoring and elevating QA capabilities across the team.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills; self‑motivated, collaborative, proactive and able to present architecture, tradeoffs, and recommendations, clearly to senior management and stakeholders.

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)

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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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_04

    

    

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