Description
We are seeking a Senior Cloud Developer to join our HPE Hybrid Cloud team. As a Senior Cloud Developer, you will design, develop, and maintain Network Topology Management accuracy and reliability. You will build and optimize topology discovery and processing pipelines for L2 and L3 relationships, debug and resolve topology defects, and improve topology reconciliation, graph consistency, and end-to-end observability.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain Network Topology Management accuracy and reliability.
- Build and optimize topology discovery and processing pipelines for L2 and L3 relationships.
- Debug and resolve topology defects.
- Improve topology reconciliation, graph consistency, and end-to-end observability.
- Collaborate with backend, frontend, network domain, SRE, and product teams to deliver NTM-first solutions.
- Build operational tooling and diagnostics for fast root-cause analysis in distributed systems.
- Contribute to Network Configuration Management as secondary focus, including backup, compliance, remediation, and restore reliability.
- Improve user-facing workflows for topology and configuration operations in UI experiences.
- Support production readiness through testing, monitoring, performance tuning, and incident response.
- Identify and drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and maintainability of NTM and NCM systems.
- Design and develop vast and various Network topologies in virtual using different tools like Netlab, Containerlab, etc.
Requirements:
- 8-12+ years of software engineering experience in scalable enterprise systems.
- Strong Java Programming: Proficiency in writing robust, scalable Java applications with a solid grasp of core development fundamentals, object-oriented design, and microservices architecture.
- Core Networking Expertise: Deep understanding of network fundamentals, including L2/L3 concepts (VLANs, Routing), gateway protocols (BGP), and secure tunnels (IPsec, GRE).
- Advanced Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and algorithmic problem-solving skills, with a track record of debugging complex systems and tackling distributed engineering challenges.
- Hands-on experience with any of network device OS like Arista (EOS), Cisco (NXOS, IOS, XE-IOS), Juniper (Junos), Aruba, etc.
- Hands-on experience with tools like Docker, Containerlab, Netlab, Postman, etc.
- Must have knowledge on SNMP Domain skills and hands-on experience with network devices CLI.
- Experience with APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data processing pipelines.
- Experience debugging production issues across service, data, and UI layers.
- Ability to design robust retry, failure handling, and recovery mechanisms.
Good to have:
- Network Discovery & Observability: Experience with network discovery, topology reconciliation at scale, and observability tooling for logs, metrics, and traces.
- Full-Stack Capabilities: Hands-on exposure to front-end development, particularly React and TypeScript, for operational UI integrations.
- Systems Engineering: Experience with performance tuning, reliability engineering, and building resilient cloud architectures.
- Security & Design: A security-first mindset when building multi-tenant systems, coupled with strong cross-domain knowledge and design-thinking principles.
- Release Management: Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines and agile release management.
- Community Engagement: Open-source contributions, technical blogs, or architecture notes related to networking or distributed systems.