Senior Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation

Senior Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work 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:
What you’ll do:Responsibilities:
Solution Validation & Customer Engagement
Understand customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments to develop comprehensive validation strategies.
Drive validation efforts for customer solutions and complex networking deployments.
Collaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions and operational readiness.
Participate in technical design workshops and architecture reviews to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and serviceability.
Translate customer requirements into repeatable, solution-focused validation frameworks.
Present technical findings, risk assessments, quality recommendations, and executive-level updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
Participate in cross-functional initiatives that improve customer outcomes and product quality.
Automation & Quality Engineering
Contribute to automation strategy and implementation across products and engineering teams.
Architect, develop, and evolve scalable automation frameworks supporting functional, integration, system, resiliency, scale, performance, and solution validation.
Establish engineering best practices and standards for continuous validation through CI/CD pipelines.
Support innovation in automation infrastructure, tooling, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
Promote quality engineering methodologies that improve time-to-market and engineering productivity.
Identify opportunities to simplify validation workflows and reduce operational costs through automation.
System-Level Testing & Debugging
Validate distributed, multi-component software and networking platforms at scale.
Utilize logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, observability platforms, and diagnostic frameworks to troubleshoot complex failures.
Perform root-cause investigations spanning multiple teams and technology domains.
Differentiate product defects from infrastructure, automation, and environmental issues.
Provide recommendations to improve product testability, diagnosability, and operational excellence.
Technical Leadership
Provide technical expertise for significant projects, releases, and engineering initiatives.
Serve as a subject matter expert for solution validation, automation, and quality engineering.
Partner with engineering teams across functions to align around quality objectives.
Promote quality-first engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle.
Mentor engineers through technical guidance, reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
Contribute to technical innovation through engineering improvements, knowledge sharing, and technical proposals.
Support technical capabilities that create business value and customer impact.
What you need to bring: Required Qualifications
Software Engineering & Automation
Strong programming expertise in Python, Go, or C++, with proficiency in at least one language.
Experience designing and building automation frameworks and quality engineering solutions.
Experience integrating large-scale automated testing into CI/CD environments.
Experience delivering impactful automation initiatives.
Systems & Networking
Strong understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems, networking, processes, memory management, and system internals.
Extensive experience validating distributed and multi-component systems.
Deep hands-on expertise configuring and validating multi-vendor networking environments.
Experience supporting service provider, enterprise, and cloud networking deployments.
Strong knowledge of performance testing and traffic-generation platforms such as Ixia and Spirent.
Testing & Quality Engineering
Deep expertise in system-level and end-to-end validation.
Multi-feature, longevity, resiliency, interoperability, scale, and performance testing.
Fault injection and recovery validation.
Root-cause analysis and complex defect investigation.
Advanced troubleshooting across multiple software and infrastructure layers.
Leadership & Influence
Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver measurable product impact.
Proven ability to provide technical guidance and influence engineering decisions.
Experience mentoring engineers and supporting cross-functional initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
Should have 10+ yrs of industry experience.
Advanced networking expertise in Layer 2, Layer 3, TCP/IP, Routing, MPLS, EVPN, and data center technologies.
Experience with network operating systems, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, and distributed architectures.
Working knowledge of JUNOS.
Industry certifications such as JNCIE, CCIE, or equivalent.
Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools for automation development, test generation, diagnostics, failure analysis, and productivity improvements.
Track record of innovation resulting in patents, publications, standards contributions, or architectural leadership.
Accessibility
HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.
Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
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Personal & Professional Development
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