Performance Automation Engineer

Performance Automation Engineer

This role has been designed as ''Onsite' with an expectation that you will primarily work 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:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Networking and Security DevOps team is seeking a talented, hands‑on Performance Automation Engineer who thrives in a fast‑paced environment.

This role is ideal for someone skilled in performance tuning and Linux system optimization, looking to join a collaborative team and make a direct impact on critical SD‑WAN Edge Connect services.

You will play a key role in performance analysis, tuning, troubleshooting, and optimizing hardware, virtual, and cloud‑based services running on Linux.

You Will Make Your Mark by:


* Enable complex performance testing and monitoring of HPE Networking SD-WAN products to ensure system level objectives are met.


* Collaborate with Engineering to proactively troubleshoot performance related issues and provide input on implementation considerations to ensure better performance metrics.


* Automate and maintain methods to deploy new testbeds in next-generation SD-WAN platforms for performance testing.


* Manage day-to-day operations to ensure the performance testbeds are configured appropriately for consistent execution of tests.


* Deploy new features and functionalities to performance testing frameworks.

About You:



* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.


* Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in the networking industry.


* Minimum of three (3) years of experience and knowledge in automation using Python.


* 5 plus years of experience in C programming and debugging.


* Experience with Linux as a traffic generator.


* Working experience with Intel E810 or similar network cards.


* Strong Computer Science fundamentals - algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, and excellent knowledge of programming.


* Hands on experience with Fedora Core or Ubuntu.


* Experience with Spirent or IXIA traffic generator.


* High degree of competency working with multi-threaded development.


* Strong troubleshooting and optimization skills.


* 3 plus years of working experience with DPDK.


* Hands on knowledge of profiling/debugging/network traffi...