Technical Product Manager - Kubernetes & Containers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 349,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Career development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the United States is seeking a hands-on Technical Product Manager to work directly with engineering on our Kubernetes and container platform (Morpheus HKS‑ Kubernetes Service). This role emphasizes writing detailed specs, testing features, and resolving customer issues with engineering.

You will deploy clusters, validate fixes, and collaborate in sprint planning, prioritizing bugs and feature requests while helping craft release notes and technical docs for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years in product management or hands-on technical role with Kubernetes experience.
• Comfortable in a terminal — stand up a cluster, read logs, troubleshoot without full engineering handholding.

Responsibilities

• Write detailed product requirements and technical specs for Kubernetes features.
• Deploy clusters, test features, reproduce issues, validate fixes.
• Collaborate with engineers in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and design reviews.
• Triage and prioritize bugs, customer escalations, and feature requests.
• Define test plans and acceptance criteria with QA/engineering for Kubernetes capabilities.
• Provide technical answers, demos, and troubleshooting for Kubernetes-related queries to field/sales engineering.
• Track competitive Kubernetes distributions to inform feature decisions with technical evidence.
• Contribute to release notes, technical docs, and internal enablement content.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

Cluster deployment

SRE/DevOps

Technical writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Calico

Job description

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

About the Role

We're looking for a hands‑on Technical Product Manager to work directly with engineering on our Kubernetes and container platform (e.g., Morpheus HKS‑ Kubernetes Service). This role is more about being in the weeds — writing detailed specs, testing features, generate technical content, digging into customer/support issues, and helping engineering ship the right thing correctly.

What You'll Do

• Write detailed product requirements and technical specs for Kubernetes/container features (cluster lifecycle, CSI/storage integration, CNI/networking, autoscaling, upgrades) that engineering can build directly against.
• Get hands‑on with the product — deploy clusters, test new features, reproduce customer/support issues, and validate fixes before they ship.
• Work day‑to‑day with engineers in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and design reviews — not just handing off requirements, but actively problem‑solving alongside them.
• Triage and prioritize incoming bugs, customer escalations, and feature requests based on technical severity and impact.
• Partner with QA/engineering to define test plans and acceptance criteria for new Kubernetes capabilities.
• Support field/sales engineering with technical answers, demos, and troubleshooting for Kubernetes‑related customer questions.
• Track competitive Kubernetes distributions and ecosystem tools hands‑on (installing, testing, comparing) to inform feature decisions with direct technical evidence, not just market reports.
• Contribute to release notes, technical documentation, and internal enablement content.

Required Background

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product management or a hands‑on technical role (engineering, DevOps, SRE) with meaningful direct Kubernetes/container experience.
• Comfortable in a terminal — able to stand up a cluster, read logs, and troubleshoot without relying entirely on engineering to explain what's happening.

Technical Skills We're Looking For

• Kubernetes core: hands‑on experience with control plane components, kubelet, RBAC, namespaces, cluster autoscaling, and upgrade/lifecycle workflows — enough to operate a cluster yourself, not just describe one.
• CSI (Container Storage Interface): practical experience with dynamic volume provisioning, snapshots, and StorageClass/storage policy configuration.
• CNI/SDN networking: working knowledge of pod networking, overlay networks, and troubleshooting connectivity issues.
• Multi‑cluster/multi‑tenant environments: hands‑on exposure to namespace isolation and multi‑tenancy configurations.
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code: ability to read/write basic Terraform or Ansible for provisioning and testing.
• CNCF ecosystem tools: direct experience installing/operating Prometheus, Grafana, Calico, or similar add‑ons.
• Scripting/basic coding: comfortable with Python, Bash, or Go for testing, automation, or quick tooling.
• Hybrid virtualization awareness (nice to have): exposure to Kubernetes running on VMware, KVM‑based hypervisors, or bare metal.

Soft Skills

• Detail‑oriented and comfortable getting into technical specifics rather than staying at the strategy level.
• Strong collaborator who earns credibility with engineers through technical competence, not just process management.
• Good written communicator for specs, bug reports, and technical documentation.

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.

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Job

Engineering

Job Level

TCP_05

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 160,000 - 303,000 in Colorado // 172,000 - 349,000 in California // 152,000 - 349,000 in Texas
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

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The estimated job application period closure is August 31 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

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