Principal Solution Architect – Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization & Observability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
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Job summary
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP in Bengaluru (India) seeks a Principal Solution Architect to lead Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization, Observability, and SDN initiatives for enterprise customers. You will guide architecture, drive end-to-end solutions, and engage with executives across virtualization, cloud management, and automation.
The role requires 12+ years of experience, strong leadership, and a proven track record in cloud modernization.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking, or solution architecture roles.
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise technology solutions.
- Experience engaging with senior technical and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture discussions, solution design workshops, and technical strategy engagements with customers.
- Develop end-to-end solution architectures spanning virtualization, cloud management, observability, and SDN.
- Provide architectural governance and ensure alignment with customer objectives.
- Act as a trusted advisor for digital transformation, cloud modernization, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Presales activities, proposals, and technical presentations; mentor architects and engineering teams.
Skills
Education
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Job description
This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
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.
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.
We are seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization, Observability, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor to customers, helping them modernize their IT operations through cloud management platforms, automation, observability, and infrastructure transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with business acumen and has extensive experience architecting complex enterprise solutions across infrastructure, networking, cloud, and operations domains. This role will work closely with customers, sales teams, consulting teams, and technology partners to define solution architectures and drive successful outcomes.
- Lead architecture discussions, solution design workshops, and technical strategy engagements with customers.
- Develop end-to-end solution architectures spanning virtualization, cloud management, observability, and software-defined networking.
- Provide architectural governance and ensure alignment with customer business and technical objectives.
- Act as a trusted advisor for digital transformation, cloud modernization, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Architect and implement hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.
- Design cloud governance, automation, self-service, provisioning, and policy-driven operational frameworks.
- Develop cloud operating models that improve agility, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Guide customers through cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives.
- Design and optimize virtualization solutions using VMware, Nutanix, HPE VM Essentials, Hyper-V, KVM, and related technologies.
- Architect resilient and scalable infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical workloads.
- Lead capacity planning, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Architect enterprise observability solutions covering infrastructure, applications, networks, and cloud environments.
- Design monitoring, analytics, event correlation, automation, and operational intelligence frameworks.
- Leverage metrics, logs, traces, topology, and telemetry data to improve operational visibility and business outcomes.
- Enable proactive operations through automation and AI-assisted insights.
- Design software‑defined networking architectures for enterprise data centres and hybrid cloud deployments.
- Define network segmentation, micro-segmentation, Zero-Trust architectures, and SD-WAN strategies.
- Integrate networking, security, and cloud operations into a unified operational model.
- Drive network automation and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption.
- Presales activities, solution positioning, proposals, and technical presentations.
- Conduct executive-level customer discussions and roadmap workshops.
- Partner with sales, consulting, delivery, and support organisations to ensure customer success.
- Mentor solution architects and engineering teams across multiple projects.
- Education: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- Experience: 12+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking, or solution architecture roles.
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise technology solutions.
- Experience engaging with senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Virtualization: VMware vSphere / ESXi, HPE VM Essentials, Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM.
- Observability & AIOps: Experience with one or more of: HPE OpsRamp, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
- Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Private Cloud Platforms.
- Cloud Management Platforms: HPE Morpheus, VMware Aria, Service Management and Automation Platforms.
- Networking & SDN: Enterprise Networking, Software Defined Networking (SDN), SD-WAN, Network Security, Micro-Segmentation, Routing and Switching, Network Automation.
- Automation & Modern Platforms: Terraform, Ansible, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift.
- VMware VCDX, VCP, or equivalent certification.
- Cisco CCNP/CCIE certification.
- AWS/Azure Architect certifications.
- Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD).
- Experience with managed services, enterprise consulting, or large-scale cloud transformation programmes.
- Executive-level communication and presentation skills.
- Strong architectural and consultative problem-solving capabilities.
- Customer-first mindset.
- Ability to influence and lead without direct authority.
- Strategic thinking combined with hands-on technical expertise.
- Proven ability to work across geographically distributed teams.
The ideal candidate will have experience with enterprise customers undertaking cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, observability, and networking initiatives. They should possess deep expertise in virtualization, cloud management platforms, observability technologies, and software-defined networking while being comfortable leading customer-facing architecture discussions and strategic technology engagements. This background aligns well with modern Hybrid Cloud and Observability solution domains.
Principal Solution Architect responsible for designing and delivering Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization, Observability, and Software‑Defined Networking solutions for enterprise customers, with strong customer‑facing architecture, consulting, and technical leadership experience.
Bengaluru or Delhi NCR, India.
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