Senior Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP in Bengaluru, India seeks a Senior Engineer - Solution Engineering for Customer Solution Validation. You will lead validation for complex networking deployments and engage with customers, field engineers, and solution architects to ensure reliability and scalability.

You will design repeatable validation frameworks, contribute to automation strategies, and guide cross‑functional teams to improve product quality and time‑to‑market while maintaining strong

Qualifications

• Software Engineering & Automation: strong Python/Go/C++ and automation framework design.
• Linux/UNIX and networking: deep understanding of distributed systems and multi-vendor networks.
• System-level validation & performance testing: end-to-end validation, fault injection, scalability.
• Leadership & influence: mentoring and cross-functional project leadership.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer deployments and architect validation strategies.
• Drive validation for customer solutions and complex networking deployments.
• Collaborate with customers, field engineers, architects, sales, and services to validate solutions.
• Present findings, risk assessments, and quality recommendations to stakeholders.

Job description

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 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. Let’s Stay Connected: Follow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE. #india #networking

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