Principal Technology Consultant in Winnersh

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

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

HPE Morpheus Enterprise is a unified platform designed to simplify the consumption of hybrid clouds, container clusters, and infrastructure automation tools. It serves as the orchestration and automation foundation for the HPE Hybrid Cloud Portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of technology experts, dedicated to supporting our core cloud management platform, expanding our growing list of integrations, developing automation and custom plugins, and assisting customers in maximising the value of HPE Morpheus Software.

Responsibilities

• Multi-Cloud Engineering: Drive the engineering of highly available multi-cloud architectures, focusing on complex hybrid and multi-cloud solutions that bridge on-premises KVM stacks with public cloud providers.
• DevOps & Automation Leadership: Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment frameworks to enhance product build-outs and engineering velocity.
• Advanced Tier-4 Escalations: Act as the ultimate technical authority for critical issues involving Morpheus/VME and the HVM (Ubuntu 24.04 KVM) hypervisor stack.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the development of reusable automation assets using Ansible and Terraform to manage infrastructure across diverse cloud environments.
• Targeted IT Ops & QA Support: Assist in the maintenance of internal build and QA environments as needed, ensuring stability for the development team without primary daily management responsibility.
• Technical Governance: Author and maintain architectural documentation, playbooks, and technical standards to ensure alignment with cloud-native best practices.
• Knowledge Leadership: Mentor junior engineers in DevOps methodologies and represent the engineering team in high-level technical forums.

Education and Experience Required

• Experience: 7–9 years of technical engineering experience with a strong focus on cloud architecture and automation.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field; or 7+ years of relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.

Knowledge and Skills

• DevOps Proficiency: Critical expertise in DevOps practices, including containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), automated testing, and release management.
• Hypervisor Expertise: Subject matter mastery of KVM, including Ubuntu 24.04 LTS administration A deep familiarity with multi-cloud management, automation, and orchestration tools such as Morpheus Cloud Management.
• Multi-Cloud Networking & Ops: Comprehensive understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid networking topologies.
• High-Availability Stacks: Hands‑on engineering experience with Ceph, gfs2, Pacemaker, and Corosync for resilient enterprise deployments.
• Automation Tooling: Expert‑level scripting in Python, Bash, Terraform and Ansible for end‑to‑end infrastructure orchestration.
• Strategic Communication: Ability to articulate complex multi‑cloud strategies to senior leadership and provide clear, actionable technical guidance to peers.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)

HPE provides equal employment opportunity to any employee or applicant without regard to sex, gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, uniformed service status, familial status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.