Sr. Principal Cloud Developer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Bengaluru invites a Sr. Principal Cloud Developer to join our Hybrid Cloud team. You will lead architecture, drive technology investments, and mentor senior engineers to deliver scalable, secure cloud solutions.

With 15+ years in enterprise software and cloud infra, you will collaborate with executives, architects, and product teams to align technology with business goals, while navigating complex multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience with leadership in enterprise software and cloud infra.
• Strong architecture and domain expertise in private/hybrid cloud.
• Proficient in infrastructure automation and REST/API-driven orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Identify and adopt emerging technologies to drive innovation.
• Define architecture standards for cloud software and automation.
• Provide technical leadership across private cloud, compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Mentor senior engineers and align initiatives with business goals.
• Collaborate with executives and product teams to deliver measurable value.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Automation

AI concepts

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Infrastructure management

Private cloud

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

15+ years experience in enterprise software/cloud infra

Tools

VMware

KVM

HPE VM Essentials

Morpheus

Job description

Sr. Principal Cloud Developer

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.

What you’ll do

• Leads the identification, evaluation, and adoption of emerging technologies, architectural approaches, and strategic technical investments to drive innovation and competitiveness.
• Defines and drives architecture, methodologies, standards, and engineering best practices for cloud software, infrastructure management, automation, and systems integration.
• Provides technical and architectural leadership across private cloud, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, infrastructure orchestration, security, and lifecycle management, working with domain experts where deeper specialization is required.
• Leverages recognized domain expertise and engineering judgment to influence complex technical decisions across products, platforms, and organizations.
• Collaborates with executive leadership, product management, architects, and engineering teams to align technology initiatives with business and customer objectives and deliver measurable value.
• Drives solutions to complex and ambiguous customer and engineering problems, balancing scalability, availability, security, performance, manageability, cost, customer experience, and time-to-market.
• Champions continuous innovation, architecture and design excellence, automation, security, engineering quality, and reusable platform capabilities while contributing to the HPE technical community.
• Provides strategic guidance and mentorship to senior technical teams, develops technical talent, and enables engineering teams to independently deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Evaluates and promotes the practical adoption of emerging technologies, including Generative AI and Agentic AI, where they can improve infrastructure management, automation, operations, troubleshooting, customer experience, or engineering productivity

What you need to bring

Education and Experience Required

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a closely related quantitative discipline. 15+ years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated technical leadership and architecture experience in enterprise software, cloud, private cloud, or infrastructure technologies.

Knowledge and Skills

• Deep expertise in cloud and distributed systems architecture, with proven ability to define technical strategy and architecture for complex enterprise and HPE Private Cloud solutions.
• Broad understanding of private and hybrid cloud infrastructure, including Linux, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, resiliency, security, and lifecycle management, with deep expertise in one or more relevant technology domains.
• Strong expertise in one or more areas such as cloud architecture, virtualization, infrastructure orchestration, automation, lifecycle management, distributed systems, storage, networking, or cloud management platforms.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and orchestration, including Day 0/1/2 operations, REST APIs, workflow automation, infrastructure-as-code, and extensible/plugin-based architectures.
• Experience with virtualization and cloud-management technologies such as VMware, KVM, HPE VM Essentials, Morpheus, or comparable technologies.
• Candidates are not expected to be experts across every platform.
• Strong software engineering and DevSecOps foundations, including CI/CD, automated testing and validation, observability, secure development, vulnerability management, upgrades, and production supportability.
• Good understanding of Generative AI and Agentic AI concepts, with the interest and ability to apply emerging AI technologies to infrastructure management, automation, operations, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity.
• Exceptional system-design, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound architectural trade-offs across scalability, availability, security, performance, manageability, customer experience, cost, and time-to-market.
• Proven Senior Principal-level technical leadership, with the ability to influence architecture across product and organizational boundaries, bring together domain experts, mentor senior technical talent, and translate complex customer and business needs into scalable and reusable solutions.
• Demonstrated innovation and technical thought leadership through major architectural contributions, reusable frameworks/platforms, patents, publications, technology incubation, or significant product innovations.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to articulate complex architectures, alternatives, risks, and trade-offs to engineers, product leaders, customers, partners, and executives.
• Demonstrated ability to operate beyond an individual component or product, establish long-term technical direction, and connect technologies and teams across the HPE Private Cloud ecosystem to deliver sustained customer and business impact.

Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. 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.

Job

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Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

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