Sr. Cloud Engineer - Virtualization

Sr. Cloud Engineer - Virtualization

  

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:

   

The Opportunity

Join HPE’s Private Cloud Engineering team and help shape the virtualization platform powering hybrid cloud solutions for the world’s largest enterprises. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you won’t just manage VMs — you’ll scale, optimize, and evolve the platform itself. From high-performance virtual compute and storage to secure workload isolation and dynamic scheduling, your work will directly influence the direction of HPE’s Private Cloud solutions, used across global enterprise environments.

Essential Functions

• Design, implement, and expand the virtualization layer of HPE’s KVM-based Private Cloud product line.

• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for issues such as VM performance degradation, cluster outages, and storage failures.

• Engineer advanced virtualization features, including live migration, snapshotting, hot-swappable vCPUs, dynamic memory management, and NUMA-aware scheduling.

• Tune system performance using tools like hugepages, CPU pinning, macvtap, and VirtIO, with deep expertise in Linux internals (e.g. memory management, CPU affinity).

• Configure and optimize shared storage for high-availability (HA) setups using technologies such as Ceph, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, GFS2, or OCFS2.

• Develop high-performance virtual networking topologies, including virtual bridges, SR-IOV, VLANs, and Open vSwitch.

• Work cross-functionally with product, operations, and customer teams to define requirements and deliver production-grade virtualization solutions.

• Collaborate with senior engineering leaders to shape the product roadmap, evolve system architecture, and evaluate emerging technologies.

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership within the virtualization domain.

• Assist with customer issues as needed and ensure technical standards and documentation requirements are met.

• Collaborate with sales engineering and operational teams to understand customer needs and recommend solutions.

About You

• Expertise in Java, Groovy, or other JVM-based languages.

• Strong background in backend development, RESTful APIs, server-side logic, and database management (SQL or NoSQL).

• Hands-on experience with KVM, libvirt, and QEMU in enterprise-scale production environments.

• Experience building and supporting high-availability virtualization clusters at scale.

• Familiarity with open-source stacks like oVirt, OpenStack, Proxmox, or Red Hat Virtualization.

• Solid understanding of virtualization networking (e.g., SR-IOV, macvtap, bridges) and storage technologies (e.g., Ceph, LVM, iSCSI, NFS).

• Experience in performance tuning, monitoring, and availability architecture for virtualized infrastructure.

• Strong knowledge of system architecture, design principles, and translating product requirements into technical tasks.

• History of identifying areas for product improvement and contributing ideas that align with business objectives.

• Proven ability to take ownership of projects and mistakes, with exceptional problem-solving skills and self-drive.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative mindset and a passion for mentoring others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of experience contributing to technology projects and delivering solutions at scale with an emphasis on Linux-based virtualization.

Why Join HPE?

• Shape the core virtualization platform powering HPE Private Cloud

• Work on meaningful inf