Description
We are seeking a Senior Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation to join our team. As a Senior Engineer, you will primarily work from an HPE office in Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India.
Job Description:
As a Senior Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation, you will be responsible for solution validation and customer engagement, automation and quality engineering, system-level testing and debugging, and technical leadership.
Solution Validation & Customer Engagement
- Develop comprehensive validation strategies based on customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments.
- Drive validation efforts for customer solutions and complex networking deployments in collaboration with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams.
- Participate in technical design workshops and architecture reviews to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and serviceability.
- Translate customer requirements into repeatable, solution-focused validation frameworks.
- Present technical findings, risk assessments, quality recommendations, and executive-level updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
Automation & Quality Engineering
- Contribute to automation strategy and implementation across products and engineering teams.
- Architect, develop, and evolve scalable automation frameworks supporting functional, integration, system, resiliency, scale, performance, and solution validation.
- Establish engineering best practices and standards for continuous validation through CI/CD pipelines.
- Support innovation in automation infrastructure, tooling, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
System-Level Testing & Debugging
- Validate distributed, multi-component software and networking platforms at scale.
- Utilize logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, observability platforms, and diagnostic frameworks to troubleshoot complex failures.
- Perform root-cause investigations spanning multiple teams and technology domains.
Technical Leadership
- Provide technical expertise for significant projects, releases, and engineering initiatives.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for solution validation, automation, and quality engineering.
- Partner with engineering teams across functions to align around quality objectives.
- Promote quality-first engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
What you need to bring:
Required Qualifications
- Strong programming expertise in Python, Go, or C++.
- Experience designing and building automation frameworks and quality engineering solutions.
- Experience integrating large-scale automated testing into CI/CD environments.
- Strong understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems, networking, processes, memory management, and system internals.
- Extensive experience validating distributed and multi-component systems.
- Deep hands-on expertise configuring and validating multi-vendor networking environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of industry experience.
- Advanced networking expertise in Layer 2, Layer 3, TCP/IP, Routing, MPLS, EVPN, and data center technologies.
- Experience with network operating systems, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, and distributed architectures.
- Working knowledge of JUNOS.
- Industry certifications such as JNCIE, CCIE, or equivalent.