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:
What you’ll do:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Networking Specialist to join our team focused on software solutions for our VM Essentials customers. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing Data Plane layer of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) enhancements to VM Essentials customers in highly scalable, enterprise private cloud-based, distributed architectures.
- Design and develop Data Plane features for SDN targeted at large enterprise customers
- Debug and fix software issues in highly scalable and performance intensive deployments
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams (Configuration and Control path) to ensure seamless integration
- Optimize performance of SDN in truly distributed, cloud based software architecture
- Opportunity to work with some of the networking gurus who have developed and authored cutting-edge solutions for ever evolving access network.
What you need to bring:
- Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in computer-science or related field.
- Excellent network software design capabilities, C/C++ programming, debugging skills and a strong systems programming background
- 4+ years of experience in developing new features and bug fixing on complex products in networking domain.
- Knowledge of L2 (EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN) and L3 (eBGP, iBGP, MP-BGP, MPLS)
- Experience with routing, Kernel and DPDK Forwarding Plane, Tunnel using MPLSoUDP, MPLSoGRE and VxLan
- Experience with XMPP, BGP, iBGP and NetConf
- Knowledge of EBPF
- Experience in debugging networking problems in complex systems involving multiple process/thread interactions including, but not limited to analysing crashes, scaling and performance issues, packet loss, memory leaks and memory corruption
- Proactive mindset and strong willingness to learn in addition to ability to think out of the box and adopt new software development tools and technologies
- Understanding of network architecture of enterprise cloud and experience in deploying applications in Kubernetes environment is a plus.
Additional Skills:
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:
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TCP_03"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 111,500 - 211,500 in Colorado // 120,500 - 228,500 in Massachusetts // 106,000 - 243,000 in Texas
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."
Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html
The estimated job application period closure is May 25 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.
HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.
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