Principal Infrastructure and Security Solutions Architect

Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited is seeking a Principal Lab Infrastructure and Security Solutions Architect to shape global lab infrastructure architecture with a security-first approach.

The role requires leading a small engineering team, defining architectural principles for compute, storage, networking, and virtualization, and guiding risk and cybersecurity considerations across the organization.

Qualifications

• Define current-state and future-state architecture for Global Lab infrastructure.
• Develop scalable, secure, and repeatable reference architectures and technology patterns.
• Mentor senior engineers, architects and technical specialists.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for cybersecurity architecture within local risk environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small engineering team that establishes architectural principles for compute, storage, networking, and virtualization infrastructure.
• Ensure architectural decisions consider security, reliability, scalability, performance, cost, maintainability, and operational complexity.
• Influence technical decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Work cross-organizationally with IT and Cybersecurity and Digital Risk Management and serve as a senior escalation point for highly complex infrastructure and cybersecurity problems.
• Represent infrastructure architecture and cybersecurity considerations in strategic planning.

Skills

Systems thinking

Cybersecurity

Risk decisions

Technical authority

Influence & collaboration

Problem solving

Standardization

Technical leadership

Communication

Job description

Principal Lab Infrastructure and Security Solutions Architect

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement 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:

Core Responsibilities

• Define current-state and future-state architecture for Global Lab infrastructure.


• Develop scalable, secure, and repeatable reference architectures and technology patterns.


• Lead a small engineering team that establishes architectural principles for compute, storage, networking, and virtualization infrastructure.


• Ensure architectural decisions consider security, reliability, scalability, performance, cost, maintainability, and operational complexity.


• Serve as a senior technical authority for cybersecurity architecture within local risk environments.


• Influence technical decisions across organizational boundaries.


• Work cross-organizationally with IT and Cybersecurity and Digital Risk Management (CDRM) and serve as a senior escalation point for highly complex infrastructure and cybersecurity problems.


• Support risk assessments and architectural exception processes.


• Lead cross-functional architecture initiatives without requiring direct management authority.


• Represent infrastructure architecture and cybersecurity considerations in strategic planning.


• Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical specialists.

Core Competencies

• Systems & Strategic Thinking: Understands complex dependencies across technology, security, operations, and business, translating objectives into long-term strategies and practical architecture roadmaps.


• Technical & Cybersecurity Expertise: Applies deep expertise across infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity, embedding security-by-design principles and identifying systemic technical and security risks.


• Risk-Based Decision Making: Balances security, business value, cost, operational risk, technical constraints, and innovation to make sound enterprise-level decisions.


• Technical Authority & Accountability: Serves as a trusted technical authority, makes decisions that optimize enterprise outcomes, and takes ownership of complex architectural decisions and their long-term impact.


• Influence & Collaboration: Builds alignment and drives adoption across engineering, security, operations, and business organizations without relying on direct authority.


• Problem Solving & Innovation: Solves complex, ambiguous, and novel challenges while evaluating emerging technologies and identifying opportunities for technical and business value.


• Simplification & Standardization: Reduces complexity through standardized, scalable, secure, and repeatable architectures and engineering practices.


• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Elevates organizational technical capability by mentoring engineers and architects, sharing expertise, and establishing effective engineering practices.


• Communication: Clearly communicates complex technical, architectural, and cybersecurity concepts to engineers, architects, executives, and non-technical stakeholders.

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.

Job: Engineering
Job Level: TCP_05

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

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