Principal Test Infrastructure Architect

Principal Test Infrastructure Architect

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:

Job Family Definition:

Designs, architects, develops, troubleshoots, and improves the physical and virtual infrastructure used to validate HPE's SSR product.

Determines infrastructure compatibility, influences hardware and network design, and ensures test environments are scalable, reliable, supportable, and aligned with current and future product needs.

Works closely with Solutions and Development engineers to create, maintain, and trouble shoot testing solutions and automations.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions regularly and sustainably impact technical components of HPE products, solutions, or services.

Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex infrastructure, networking, automation, and operational issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert.

Provides technical leadership and partnership to functional and cross-functional teams.

Exercises significant independent judgment to determine the best methods for achieving objectives and may provide technical direction, mentoring, and leadership to others.

Responsibilities:


* Owns the strategy, architecture, standards, reliability, capacity, operational readiness, and long-term roadmap for the SSR test environments in Westford and Andover, Massachusetts, and the remotely supported performance environment in Quincy, Washington.


* Designs and evolves physical lab layouts, network topologies, compute and virtualization platforms, storage, connectivity, management networks, and supporting services.


* Anticipates future infrastructure requirements based on SSR product plans, hardware platforms, network speeds, testing needs, and engineering priorities.


* Leads troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across hardware, Linux, networking, virtualization, power, connectivity, automation, and test infrastructure.


* Drives automation for equipment onboarding, provisioning, configuration, reservation, utilization, monitoring, recovery, inventory, and reporting.


* Establishes and maintains trusted systems of record, including NetBox or comparable tools, for equipment invent...