Senior Cloud Developer

Senior Cloud Developer

  

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 Private Cloud Control Plane Engineering team is looking to add to its growing team! With the growth of our PCBE, PCE, and now Morpheus and VM Essentials products, we are looking to add inspired and creative Software Engineers to our team! 

As a Principal Cloud Developer, you will architect, develop, and maintain enterprise class software involving on-prem and cloud services. You’ll also be involved with scaling, optimizing, and evolving the platform and its plugins. From high-performance bare metal or 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.

This is not a DevOps or Platform/Solution Engineer position

 Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop highly scalable and resilient backend systems using Java, Groovy, or other JVM-based languages, focusing on cloud-native principles.

• Lead the design and implementation of integrations with server management platforms, including BMC/Redfish, to automate server provisioning and lifecycle management.

• Develop orchestration solutions for storage systems, including Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI, ensuring robust automation and monitoring capabilities.

• Engineer and optimize L2/L3 networking programming, enabling dynamic configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of network infrastructure.

• Integrate backend systems with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), leveraging cloud APIs for hybrid and multi-cloud orchestration.

• Define and enforce best practices in software architecture, code quality, security, and DevOps across the engineering team.

• Mentor and guide engineers, conduct code reviews, and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, operations, QA) to align technical solutions with business goals.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues spanning server, storage, networking, and cloud domains.

• Document architectural decisions, system designs, and operational procedures to ensure long-term maintainability and knowledge sharing.

Knowledge and Skills

• Expert-level proficiency in Java, Groovy, or other JVM languages, with extensive experience in backend/cloud development

• Hands-on experience with BMC/Redfish protocols for server management and automation is strongly preferred.

• Knowledge of storage technologies: Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, and related orchestration and automation is preferred.

• Skills in L2/L3 networking programming: Ethernet, VLANs, TCP/IP, routing, and switching is preferred.

• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems

• Proven track record in designing and implementing microservices and plugin-based architectures for extensibility and modularity

• Experience with virtualization and containerization technologies on Linux or VMWare platforms

• Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving abilities for complex, distributed systems

• Strong leadership and mentoring with the ability to drive technical vision and collaborate across teams

Experience & Education

• Minimum of 8 + years of experience in Software Engineering

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)