Network Lead – Enterprise & Cloud Networking

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation 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 Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities.

What you will do:

Key Responsibilities

• Own and review enterprise DC, DR, and WAN network architecture, including hybrid and cloud connectivity, cloud network architecture ; act as L3/L4 escalation for complex network issues.

• Design high-availability and fault-tolerant network architectures, across DC, DR, and cloud environments, supporting large-scale enterprise and microservices-based platforms.

• Own network BCP and DC/DR strategy for primary DC and DR sites, including cloud-based DR, including inter-DC connectivity, redundancy, and failover design.

• Design and validate DC–DC and DC–DR networking, DC–Cloud networking, redundancy models, routing, and failover mechanisms.

• Plan, execute, and review DC/DR drills (planned and unplanned) from a networking perspective, including cloud DR scenarios; ensure network readiness for application DR failover and defined RTO/RPO support.

• Prepare and maintain BCP/DR runbooks, failover and fallback procedures, including cloud and hybrid failover, lead post-drill RCA, gap analysis, and corrective actions.

• Coordinate DR activities with application, security, cloud teams, OEMs, and service providers.

• Oversee day-to-day DC and DR network operations, including cloud network operations, ensuring stability, performance, and availability.

• Enforce change, incident, and problem management, along with configuration and documentation standards, across DC, DR, and cloud networks.

• Drive capacity planning, risk assessments, and audit readiness for network infrastructure, including cloud networking components.

• Mentor network engineers and act as technical SPOC during major incidents and DR events, including cloud outages and failovers, support management reporting on network availability and DR readiness.

Key Skills Enterprise & DC Networking:

DC–DR Networking Architecture

Cloud & Hybrid Networking:

Network BCP & DR Drills:

High Availability & Failover:

Routing (BGP, OSPF)

Inter-DC Connectivity

DC–Cloud Connectivity

Redundancy & Traffic Engineering:

Firewall & Perimeter Security:

Network Monitoring & Troubleshooting:

Vendor & OEM Coordination:

What you need to bring:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or related field. ; BE / BTech / MCA (CS / Electronics or equivalent); networking certifications preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 7years of hands on experience in enterprise and data center networking across DC, DR, WAN, Cloud / Hybrid Cloud, and hybrid/cloud environments.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Client Expectations Management, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Centric Solutions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Process Improvements, Product Services, Relationship Building {+ 5 more}

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.

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