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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.\nJob Description:\nWhat you'll do:\nKey Responsibilities\nSolution Delivery & Execution Leadership\nLead a team of engineers responsible for validating networking solutions and customer deployment use cases across multiple product portfolios.\nExecute solution validation strategies and roadmaps aligned with organizational and business objectives.\nDrive predictable delivery of committed releases, ensuring quality, scalability, and customer readiness.\nEstablish operational discipline through project planning, risk management, milestone tracking, and execution reviews.\nChampion automation-first methodologies to improve test efficiency, coverage, scalability, and engineering productivity.\nEnsure customer use cases are qualified from inception through deployment readiness.\nCustomer & Solution Focus\nDevelop a deep understanding of customer deployment environments, networking architectures, and operational challenges.\nPartner with Product Management, Architecture, Development, Sales, and Field Engineering teams to ensure solutions align with customer business and technical requirements.\nDrive customer-focused engineering practices that improve adoption, quality, and customer satisfaction.\nEvaluate emerging customer requirements and market trends to influence validation priorities and solution readiness activities.\nOrganizational Leadership\nLead, mentor, and develop a team of technical professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\nEstablish goals, performance expectations, and development plans for direct reports.\nIdentify and develop technical leaders and subject matter experts within the organization.\nDrive employee engagement, retention, recognition, and career growth initiatives.\nPromote diversity, inclusion, and professional development across the team.\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nPartner closely with Directors, Architects, Product Managers, and Engineering leaders to align execution with strategic objectives.\nFacilitate coordination across multiple teams to remove execution barriers and accelerate delivery.\nCommunicate progress, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans to leadership and key stakeholders.\nSupport business planning, resource allocation, and prioritization discussions.\nOperational Excellence\nDefine and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) and operational metrics.\nManage resource planning, infrastructure utilization, and project prioritization.\nOptimize engineering investments, test infrastructure, and operational expenses.\nEstablish best practices for solution validation, release readiness, and quality assurance.\nProactively identify and mitigate project and business risks.\nInnovation & Technology Leadership\nPromote innovation through automation, AI-assisted engineering, virtualization, and cloud-native validation methodologies.\nEncourage participation in technical communities, patents, standards bodies, certifications, and industry forums.\nDrive adoption of modern engineering tools, frameworks, and methodologies that improve organizational effectiveness.\nStay current with networking industry trends, competitive technologies, and emerging customer requirements.\nRequired Skills & Competencies\nLeadership\nProven experience managing high-performing engineering teams.\nStrong ability to motivate, coach, and develop technical professionals.\nDemonstrated success leading complex engineering initiatives and cross-functional programs.\nExcellent organizational, planning, and execution skills.\nStrong stakeholder management and collaboration abilities.\nBusiness & Communication\nAbility to translate technical priorities into business outcomes.\nExcellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.\nStrong customer-facing and executive communication capabilities.\nAbility to influence decision-making without direct authority.\nExperience balancing technical priorities, resources, schedules, and business objectives.\nTechnical Expertise\nStrong understanding of:\nIP/MPLS Routing\nEVPN-VXLAN\nData Center Networking\nService Provider Architectures\nRouting Protocols (BGP, OSPF, ISIS)\nMPLS, Segment Routing, L2VPN, L3VPN\nMulticast, NAT, GRE, IPSec and Security technologies\nLayer 2 Technologies (LAG, MC-LAG, Virtual Chassis)\nCLOS and Spine-Leaf Architectures\nHigh Availability and Resiliency Designs\nNetwork Automation Frameworks\nPython and API-driven Network Automation\nContainerization and Kubernetes\nWhat you need to bring:\nExperience & Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Master's degree preferred.\n15+ years of experience in networking, telecommunications, or software engineering.\n5+ years of experience leading and managing technical engineering teams.\nProven track record delivering networking products, customer solution validations, and release readiness programs.\nStrong expertise in Juniper networking technologies and customer deployment models.\nExperience working across global engineering organizations.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted engineering and automation practices is highly desirable.\nExperience with AI-assisted engineering practices and tools is highly desirable.\nExperience with competitive networking platforms such as Cisco, Arista, Nokia, or equivalent.\nIndustry certifications such as JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP, CCIE, or equivalent are highly desirable.\nAccessibility\nHPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.\nNote: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.\nWhat We Can Offer You:\nHealth & Wellbeing\nWe strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.\nPersonal & Professional Development\nWe 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.\nUnconditional Inclusion\nWe 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.\nLet's Stay Connected:\nFollow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE.\n#india#networkingJob:\nEngineeringJob Level:\nManager_2HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBTemployer. 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.\nHewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.\nHPE 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.\nRecruitment Fraud Alert\nWe have become aware of an increase in fraudulent recruitment activities in which individuals impersonate our company or authorized recruitment agencies to offer fake employment opportunities. These scams may occur through false websites, emails, social media, or chat-based applications and often aim to obtain personal information or money. 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