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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Director Software Engineering

LocationBengaluru, Karnātaka, India
Work modeon-site
Typefull-time
DepartmentEngineering
Company size10,000+ people
First seen1w ago
Last seen1d ago
About the role
Director Software EngineeringThis 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:
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 opportunities with HPE
At HPE, through our Mist platform, we are redefining what’s possible in modern networking. We’re not just building the networks customers expect — we’re delivering the intelligent, resilient networks they deserve. As the pace of innovation accelerates across the industry, we’re seeking bold thinkers, creative problem solvers, and passionate technologists who thrive at scale and are driven to make meaningful impact. Mist delivers AI-driven, cloud-native networking solutions that power enterprise-grade wireless and wired infrastructures worldwide. Our platforms support Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations and are engineered for scale, reliability, and operational excellence
Role Overview
The Director of Engineering for the SRE organization will lead strategic planning, execution, and operational excellence across key programs, infrastructure initiatives, and innovation efforts. This role is responsible for driving large-scale transformation initiatives, optimizing resource utilization, and accelerating technology adoption while ensuring strong governance, security, and compliance standards.
In this capacity, you will lead the support and scaling of highly available, AI-powered SaaS platforms built on cloud-native architectures. You will play a pivotal role in safeguarding production stability, elevating system reliability, and enabling rapid business growth across multi-cloud environments, including AWS and GCP. The primary focus of this role includes incident management, release governance, reliability engineering, and operational excellence for complex, large-scale distributed systems.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
In this capacity, you will lead the support and scaling of highly available, AI-powered SaaS platforms built on cloud-native architectures. You will play a pivotal role in safeguarding production stability, elevating system reliability, and enabling rapid business growth across multi-cloud environments, including AWS and GCP. The primary focus of this role includes incident management, release governance, reliability engineering, and operational excellence for complex, large-scale distributed systems.
Infrastructure & Operations
• Lead incident management processes to ensure timely resolution.
• Tracks performance of infrastructure, Dev/AI ops for digital platforms.
• Drive IT engagement for system integration and support.
Software Management
• Monitor software subscriptions, consumption, and cost optimization.
• Track and Manage package dependencies and ensure compatibility.
• Oversee End-of-Life (EOL) management for packages and systems.
• Track and enforce EULA compliance across all software assets.
Innovation & Thought Leadership
• Track and drive authorship of white papers to showcase technological advancements.
• Organize tech talks, external training, and workshops to foster innovation culture.
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing teams of 20+ members
• 12+ years of experience in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering within large-scale production environments
• 7+ years of hands-on experience deploying, operating, and optimizing production workloads using CI/CD pipelines in AWS and/or GCP environments
• 5+ years of experience managing distributed systems and streaming platforms, including Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Spark, Flink, Storm, and cloud-native services such as AWS EMR, Dataproc, ElastiCache, Amazon RDS, or Cloud SQL
• 5+ years of automation and software development experience using Python, Go, and/or Rust, along with strong shell scripting expertise
• 5+ years of experience defining, implementing, and operationalizing metrics to monitor infrastructure and application health, reliability, and performance
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent frameworks
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.
Job:
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Job Level:
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