Cloud Developer for Private Cloud

Job description

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation 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. **Job Family Definition** The Cloud Developer builds from the ground up to meet the needs of mission-critical applications, and is always looking for innovative approaches to deliver end-to-end technical solutions to solve customer problems. Brings technical thinking to break down complex data and to engineer new ideas and methods for solving, prototyping, designing, and implementing cloud-based solutions. Collaborates with project managers and development partners to ensure effective and efficient delivery, deployment, operation, monitoring, and support of Cloud engagements. The Cloud Developer provides business value expertise to drive the development of innovative service offerings that enrich HPE's Cloud Services portfolio across multiple systems, platforms, and applications. **Management Level Definition** Contributions include applying developed subject matter expertise to solve common and sometimes complex technical problems and recommending alternatives where necessary. Might act as project lead and provide assistance to lower level professionals. Exercises independent judgment and consults with others to determine best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives. **Role Summary** **What you will do:** We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Software Engineer with strong expertise in Linux systems, Kubernetes platforms, virtualization technologies, automation, and DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and automating enterprise-scale infrastructure and platform services while working closely with cross-functional engineering teams to build scalable, secure, and highly available solutions. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. - Build, automate, and enhance platform services using Python, Go, Shell scripting, and other automation technologies. - Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms. - Administer and support Linux-based environments, ensuring platform reliability, security, and performance. - Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized workloads and Kubernetes clusters, including RKE2, K3S, or equivalent distributions. - Manage virtualization environments using KVM, VMware, or Hyper-V technologies. - Collaborate with software development, architecture, QA, DevOps, and operations teams to design and deliver scalable platform solutions. - Participate in architecture reviews and contribute to platform strategy, technology selection, and engineering best practices. - Improve platform observability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness to ensure high availability and rapid incident resolution. - Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues and drive corrective and preventive actions. - Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with organizational standards and policies. - Support software release processes, platform upgrades, patching activities, and lifecycle management initiatives. - Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, and knowledge-sharing materials. - Participate in Agile development processes, sprint planning, design reviews, and code reviews. - Mentor and guide junior engineers while promoting engineering excellence and knowledge sharing across the team. - Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to platform architecture, automation, and operational efficiency. - Work effectively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities while delivering high-quality and reliable solutions within agreed timelines. **Key Skills Required** **What you will need to bring:** **Linux & Infrastructure** - Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills - Good understanding of server hardware, operating systems, and infrastructure architecture - Experience working with highly available and distributed systems **Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Technologies** - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes platforms such as RKE2, K3S, or equivalent distributions - Container orchestration, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting - Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and platform operations **Programming & Automation** - Strong programming experience in Python - Knowledge of Go programming - Shell scripting and automation expertise - Experience developing and maintaining system-level automation solutions **Virtualization & High Availability** - Hands-on experience with KVM (preferred), VMware,