# Principal Solution Architect – Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization & Observability

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Bengaluru, Karnātaka
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization, Observability, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with business acumen and has extensive experience architecting complex enterprise solutions across infrastructure, networking, cloud, and operations domains.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead architecture discussions, solution design workshops, and technical strategy engagements with customers.

- Develop end-to-end solution architectures spanning virtualization, cloud management, observability, and software-defined networking.

- Provide architectural governance and ensure alignment with customer business and technical objectives.

- Act as a trusted advisor for digital transformation, cloud modernization, and operational excellence initiatives.

- Architect and implement hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.

- Design cloud governance, automation, self-service, provisioning, and policy-driven operational frameworks.

- Develop cloud operating models that improve agility, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

- Guide customers through cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives.

- Design and optimize virtualization solutions using VMware, Nutanix, HPE VM Essentials, Hyper-V, KVM, and related technologies.

- Architect resilient and scalable infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical workloads.

- Lead capacity planning, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.

- Architect enterprise observability solutions covering infrastructure, applications, networks, and cloud environments.

- Design monitoring, analytics, event correlation, automation, and operational intelligence frameworks.

- Leverage metrics, logs, traces, topology, and telemetry data to improve operational visibility and business outcomes.

- Enable proactive operations through automation and AI-assisted insights.

- Design software-defined networking architectures for enterprise data centres and hybrid cloud deployments.

- Define network segmentation, micro-segmentation, Zero Trust architectures, and SD-WAN strategies.

- Integrate networking, security, and cloud operations into a unified operational model.

- Drive network automation and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.

- 12+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking, or solution architecture roles.

- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise technology solutions.

- Experience engaging with senior technical and business stakeholders.

**Technical Expertise:**

- Virtualization: VMware vSphere / ESXi, HPE VM Essentials, Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM

- Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Private Cloud Platforms

- Cloud Management Platforms: HPE Morpheus, VMware Aria, Service Management and Automation Platforms

- Networking & SDN: Enterprise Networking, Software Defined Networking (SDN), SD-WAN, Network Security, Micro-Segmentation, Routing and Switching, Network Automation

- Automation & Modern Platforms: Terraform, Ansible, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- VMware VCDX, VCP, or equivalent certification.

- Cisco CCNP/CCIE certification.

- AWS/Azure Architect certifications.

- Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD).

- Experience with managed services, enterprise consulting, or large-scale cloud transformation programmes.

## Skills

### Required
- Hybrid Cloud
- Virtualization
- Observability
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- Cloud Management Platforms
- Automation
- Networking
- Infrastructure
- Architecture

### Nice to have
- VMware VCDX
- VCP
- Cisco CCNP/CCIE
- AWS/Azure Architect
- Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD)

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