Principal Solution Architect – Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization & Observability

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Bengaluru is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise Hybrid Cloud, virtualization, observability, and SDN solutions. The role demands deep technical breadth and business acumen to guide customers and teams through cloud modernization and IT transformations.

You will work with sales, consulting and partners to define architectures and ensure measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking, or solution architecture experience.
• 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 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.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud & Hybrid Cloud

SDN

Observability

Automation & IaC

Virtualization

Customer Engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

VMware vSphere

Nutanix AHV

HPE VM Essentials

Hyper-V

KVM

Terraform

Ansible

REST APIs

Kubernetes

OpenShift

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.

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.

Position Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

• 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.

Hybrid Cloud & Cloud Management Platforms

• 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.

Virtualization & Infrastructure Modernization

• 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.

Observability & AIOps

• 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.

Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

• 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.

Customer & Business Engagement

• Support 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.

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Key Competencies

• 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