Principal Cloud Developer

$148,000 - $340,500/Yr

Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Houston, TX

Full-time - Principal

Hybrid - Houston, TX

5,001-10,000 employees

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Principal Cloud Developer role at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is designed for a hybrid work environment, requiring an average of 2-3 days per week in the office. This position focuses on enhancing and improving the CI/CD processes within the Compute Ops Management (CoM) team, which supports cloud-based management services for Gen10 and later servers. The role involves working with a team of full stack engineers to develop reliable tools and services, ensuring high-quality deployments and maintaining a robust testing framework.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day activities to enhance and improve CI/CD processes.
• Participate in SCRUM team deliverables and ceremonies.
• Contribute to code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices, including security standards.
• Advocate for customers and product quality within the organization.
• Resolve blocking issues and think through root causes for permanent solutions.
• Provide daily leadership to team members through questions and suggestions.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and architects to gather feedback on design or requirements.
• Lead technical deep-dives, architecture discussions, and cross-training efforts.
• Participate in support rotations to triage and resolve issues across various environments.
• Provide technical recommendations and presentations to senior technical staff or leadership.

Requirements

• Significant work experience in cloud technologies supporting the full development life-cycle of cloud native products.
• Prior experience in product development and deployments with a focus on quality and accountability.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker, Argo, Git, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, and Jira.
• Development experience in Python or Golang.
• Ability to create content for monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or Humio.
• Knowledge of container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS services (EKS, EC2, Cloudfront, RDS) and/or other cloud providers (Azure, GCP).
• Strong understanding of modern aaS APIs and testing principles.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and champion best practices for code quality, performance, and security.
• Experience in architecture/design/implementation of testing frameworks.

Nice-to-haves

• First level university degree or equivalent experience, preferably in electrical or computer/cloud engineering.
• Typically, 10 or more years of related work experience.
• Additional skills in Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX).

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits.
• Personal and professional development programs.
• Diversity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives.