Job Description:

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 diverse 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.

Aruba is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some the largest companies in the world modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future, Aruba is redefining the “Intelligent Edge” – and creating new customer experiences across intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

Aruba Wired Networking Lab brief

This requirement is for a Technical Architect (Master) in the Aruba Wired R&D lab in HPE Bangalore; Aruba Networking is a key product R&D group within HPE with focus on networking products (switches/routers/access points/controllers)

Aruba Wired Networking R&D team is working on products for the campus market across the edge, aggregator and core markets and for the branch networking markets. Aruba switches offer high performance, scalability, and a wide range of features for core to edge connectivity that dramatically reduces network complexity and lowers cost of ownership.

We are looking for Technical Architect positions to lead and drive the development of the future enterprise networking products and solutions. Architects play key hands-on roles in multi-discipline teams working on new and next generation products and solutions. This includes owning product architecture, product feature definition, software design, SW development and test, customer interaction. Projects typically involve coordination with internal and external development partners.

What you’ll do:

Key Responsibilities:

• Senior level network and firmware architect to define and lead Enterprise/Campus Switch product efforts.
• Involves designing, specifying and leading the implementation of the networking features.
• Includes working with product marketing, tracking industry trends, and gathering customer feedback with the intent of driving those results into a superior comprehensive network architecture/product.
• Work often involves cross organizational interactions: Hardware, Firmware, System management, Network teams, Sales teams, Architects, other organizations, etc. to arrive at best solutions.
• Demonstrates strong domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of senior management, development partners and the eco system
• Develops architectures and methodologies for software systems design and development across multiple platforms
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with systems design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects/product roadmap and activities in the software systems design organization.
• Strong ability to negotiate and build consensus in engineering community on technical decisions
• Must excel at communication at multiple organization levels: customer, executives, ODMs & 3rd party development, and engineering teams

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent
• 15+ years of experience

Specialized Expertise (must have)

• Experience working directly on security networking products and applications.
• IKE and IPSEC
• IDS, IPS technologies (includes anomaly detection, identifying security breaches etc)
• Firewall product architecture and implementation.
• Cisco 9300x (or similar) product experience

Required Domain Expertise: Enterprise networking products with expertise in L2/L3/Security Protocols & Features

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience designing and developing firmware for switches and/or network controllers.
• Strong Operating System experience – Linux, VxWorks etc
• Knowledge of ASIC architectures – e.g. Broadcom, etc
• Expert knowledge in C
• Extensive experience in overall architecture of firmware and interaction with hardware designs for products and solutions.
• Designing and integrating network solutions into overall architecture and hardware design across multiple platforms
• Working Knowledge of advanced networking concepts – L2(xSTP, VLAN, LACP, LLDP, TRILL), L3 (OSPF, BGP, Tunnels), Multicast (PIM, IGMP), IPv6, Security (RADIUS/TACACS, SSH, Access Contrl), ACL/QoS.
• Experience on both platform dependent and platform independent networking protocol and infrastructure work.
• Ability to internalize standards (IEEE, IETF) and convert into deliverables – design/code etc
• History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software, firmware, or network design
• Experience with Network Development Tools - Sniffer, Traffic Generators, IXIA, Spirent etc
• Strong Network troubleshooting ability encompassing: OS, Network Stack, Sniffers, switches, external network.
• Strong Network troubleshooting ability
• Experience using version control system – ex. GIT/Clearcase
• Ability to create white papers and advanced training material for solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Strongly Desired skills

• Evangelizing emerging technology/representing organization in standards body and customer events
• Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and solutions for alignment with technology roadmap and business value. Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software systems design organization.
• Demonstrated history of contribution to Intellectual Property and Innovation.
• Linux Device Driver experience
• Working knowledge of Assembly code
• Experience in writing Secure Software
• Experience in agile development methodology