Principal Cloud Developer – Virtualization 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: In the HPE Hybrid Cloud, we lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for all of HPE. This includes managing the design, development, and product portfolio of our next-generation cloud platform, Green Lake. Working with customers, we help them reimagine their information technology needs to deliver a simple, consumable solution that helps them drive their business results. Join us redefine what’s next for you. What you’ll do: Essential Functions: You will be responsible for virtualization infrastructure software development. You will lead in designing, implementing, monitoring, and troubleshooting software systems. You will partner with architects and engineering leadership to develop and deliver competitive roadmaps. You will assist customer issues as needed, provide RCA insights and help ensure technical standards and documentation requirements are met. You will stay updated on industry trends and technology changes to drive innovation into the business. You will collaborate with sales, engineering, and operational teams to understand customer needs and recommend solutions. You will learn about operational challenges faced by engineering teams and assist in developing risk-mitigating strategies to address them. You will set an example for and mentor junior engineering talent and represent engineering teams in various technical forums. What you need to bring: About You: You are regarded as a subject matter expert in virtualization or container infrastructure technologies such as KVM, libvirt, QEMU, Kubernetes, Docker and Podman. You have deep expertise in Java, Groovy, and/or other object-oriented languages. Ruby or Python experience is a plus. You have deep expertise developing for compute, storage or networking products and solutions. You have deep expertise developing for and debugging in Linux kernel/OS environments. You have experience with storage infrastructure technologies such as Ceph, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, GFS2 or similar. You have experience in advanced virtualization topics such as live migration, snapshots, hot swapping, memory management and vCPU scheduling. You have experience in virtual networking topics such as virtual bridges, SR-IOV, VLANs and Open vSwitch. You have experience in security topics such as TPMs, SELinux, encryption and access controls. You are an expert in build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle), version control systems (e.g., Git), and CI/CD pipelines. You have experience with IT Service Management (ITSM), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and other automation technologies. You have eagerness to learn and apply cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud). You have strong communication skills, can effectively present product architectures and design proposals, and negotiate options at business unit or executive levels. You take complete ownership of projects and mistakes, possess excellent problem-solving skills, and have tremendous self-drive. You thrive in Agile-based software development lifecycles with dynamic roadmaps and iterative delivery. You hold yourself and others accountable to high standards of software quality and drive shift-left improvements accordingly. You know distributed system architecture and clustering design principles. You have a strong history of translating product requirements into technical tasks. You have a strong history of identifying areas for product improvements and contributing ideas that align with business objectives. You have a history of innovation with multiple patents and/or successful deployed software solutions. Required education and experience: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 12+ Years of experience developing software and delivering solutions at scale. Preferred education and experience: Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, CompTIA Security+). 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. 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