Senior Technical Support Operations Lead

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:

This position is for an existing vacancy. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply.

Sounds like you? Then we have the right opportunity. We are looking for a Senior Technical Support Operations Lead to join our Support organization in Canada.

This is a senior technical individual-contributor role focused on enterprise support operations, hands-on technical investigation, escalation leadership, support process architecture, and operational improvement. The role combines direct engagement with strategic enterprise customers with close collaboration across Technical Support, Product Engineering, R&D, Professional Services, Sales, Renewals, Operations, and business unit teams.

You will help ensure that complex customer environments receive effective technical support by coordinating critical escalations, performing hands-on analysis, improving engineering engagement, and developing scalable processes across integrated enterprise systems.

The role requires broad technical knowledge, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and the ability to translate detailed technical findings into clear operational actions and customer communications.

How You’ll Make Your Mark

You’ll provide hands-on technical leadership for complex enterprise support cases and production incidents, including issue reproduction, diagnostic review, log analysis, packet capture analysis, performance investigation, and root-cause analysis.

You’ll help diagnose issues across distributed systems, Linux environments, networking, storage, data platforms, object storage, S3-compatible services, APIs, cloud-native platforms, observability solutions, and AI-related infrastructure.

You’ll use tools and techniques such as tcpdump, Wireshark, shell scripting, Python, HTTP and API testing tools, structured queries, performance benchmarks, monitoring data, system traces, and customer-provided diagnostic information.

You’ll act as a technical bridge between customers, Technical Support, Product Engineering, R&D, Professional Services, Product Management, and business unit teams.

You’ll coordinate complex technical escalations across multiple organizations, ensuring clear ownership, appropriate prioritization, effective communication, and follow-through until a resolution or actionable technical outcome is delivered.

You’ll help define and improve technical elevation processes into Product Engineering, including escalation criteria, quality standards, required diagnostic information, JIRA workflows, access models, knowledge article usage, and rules of engagement between Support and Engineering.

You’ll work with regional teams to support the onboarding and operational readiness of new customers, products, services, and bundled solutions.

You’ll monitor technical account health, support trends, open escalations, production risks, SLA performance, backlog, entitlement status, and recurring product issues.

You’ll identify accounts or environments requiring additional technical attention and coordinate corrective action plans, engineering engagement, executive communication, or operational follow-up as appropriate.

You’ll define and improve data-driven support measurements, including first-response SLA, time to resolution, MTTR, priority, urgency, severity, case category, entitlement accuracy, backlog, and customer-impact indicators.

You’ll help ensure that MTTR and related measurements reflect the time from case creation to the delivery of a resolution or actionable response, rather than relying solely on administrative case closure.

You’ll work across integrated enterprise systems and operational workflows involving CRM, case management, Product Engineering, entitlement, licensing, contracts, order management, renewals, and reporting.

You’ll analyze and improve operational data and workflows using platforms and tools such as Salesforce, Salesforce CLI, SOQL, Salesforce reporting and dashboards, JIRA, SAP S/4HANA Fiori, and related enterprise systems.

You’ll contribute to technical and operational enhancements within Salesforce, including field visibility, email workflows, entitlement accuracy, elevation functionality, knowledge integration, reporting quality, and data integrity.

You’ll support operational readiness and escalation processes for complex platform offerings such as HPE Data Fabric, Private Cloud AI, IT operations, Hybrid Observability, OpsRamp, and related bundled solutions.

You’ll develop scalable support procedures, technical documentation, training material, troubleshooting guidance, standard operating procedures, and reusable best practices.

You’ll help reduce dependency on informal communication channels by replacing them with documented processes, clearly defined ownership models, and repeatable support workflows.

You’ll use enterprise-approved AI-assisted tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or comparable technologies to improve technical analysis, documentation, communication, workflow design, and operational efficiency, in accordance with company security and data-handling policies.

You’ll contribute to practical AI and automation initiatives, including prototyping, structured data analysis, retrieval-augmented generation concepts, notebooks, and AI-assisted support workflows.

You’ll provide technical mentorship, process guidance, and knowledge transfer to colleagues while operating as a senior individual contributor.

You’ll support global enterprise customers and internal stakeholders across North America and Europe, including German-speaking customers where language skills and regional business experience are valuable.

About You

You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience. A Master’s degree, MBA, or equivalent advanced education is preferred.

You have 7 or more years of experience in technical support, support operations, technical account services, escalation management, professional services, solutions architecture, systems engineering, or a comparable customer-facing technical role.

You have strong hands-on troubleshooting experience across enterprise software, distributed systems, networking, storage, data platforms, cloud-native environments, observability platforms, or AI infrastructure.

You are comfortable investigating technical issues directly rather than acting only as a coordination or communication layer.

You can analyze logs, system traces, packet captures, API responses, performance data, monitoring output, entitlement records, case histories, JIRA records, and customer reproduction scenarios.

You have practical networking and protocol-level diagnostic experience, including tools and concepts such as tcpdump, Wireshark, HTTP, FTP, DNS, TLS, proxies, gateways, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and enterprise network troubleshooting.

You have experience with Linux or Unix environments, shell scripting, Python or similar scripting languages, API testing tools such as Postman or equivalent, and structured technical investigation methods.

You have working knowledge of distributed systems, enterprise software, SaaS and cloud products, data platforms, object storage, and modern hybrid-cloud architectures.

You understand the relationship between networking, compute, storage, operating systems, applications, and distributed services when troubleshooting complex performance or availability issues.

You have experience working with Product Engineering or R&D escalation processes, including defining quality gates, escalation criteria, required diagnostic evidence, priority models, and cross-functional ownership.

You understand complex enterprise support operations, including customer onboarding, case management, entitlement, contracts, licensing, order management, renewals, escalation paths, and support readiness.

You have hands-on familiarity with Salesforce reporting, dashboards, SOQL, Salesforce CLI, JIRA, SAP S/4HANA Fiori, or comparable enterprise operational systems.

You are able to identify inefficiencies in integrated systems and processes, investigate their technical or operational causes, and implement scalable improvements.

You are comfortable discussing detailed technical findings with engineers while also communicating business impact, risk, status, and resolution plans to senior customer and internal stakeholders.

You have experience working with complex, multi-divisional, multi-geographical enterprise customers, preferably including director-level and executive stakeholders.

You have demonstrated the ability to lead the cross-functional resolution of critical technical issues without requiring formal organizational authority.

You can operate independently as a senior technical individual contributor while providing mentorship, technical direction, process guidance, and operational leadership.

You have familiarity with emerging technologies such as Kubernetes, AI and machine learning infrastructure, retrieval-augmented generation, Jupyter notebooks, observability platforms, or cloud-native operations.

You have strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and prioritization skills.

You are comfortable working across global teams, cultures, and time zones.

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

German language skills are strongly preferred, particularly for supporting German-speaking enterprise customers and coordinating with European stakeholders.

French language skills are an asset, particularly for collaboration with customers, colleagues, and stakeholders in Canada and Quebec.

Location

This is a Canada-based hybrid role with an expectation of approximately two days per week on-site at the designated HPE office. Additional on-site attendance or customer travel may occasionally be required based on business needs.

Accessibility

HPE 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.

Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

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:

Job Level:

- Canada: Annual Salary CAD 172,000 - 222,000 in Ontario

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

L’échelle salariale prévue pour un nouvel embauché basé au Canada occupant ce poste est indiquée ci-desus. L'offre peut varier dans cette échelle en fonction de l'emplacement géographique, de l'expérience professionnelle, de et/ou du niveau des compétences. S'il s'agit d'un rôle de vente, l'échelle salariale indiquée reflète le salaire de base combiné à la rémunération des ventes ciblées. S'il s'agit d'un rôle non commercial, l'échelle salariale indiquée reflète uniquement le salaire de base. Des incitations variables peuvent également être proposées. "

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