VM/Hypervisor Expert

VM/Hypervisor Expert

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

This position is a VM/Hypervisor Expert role on the Compute & Cloud Services Engineering organization (CCSE). CCSE is responsible for building and operating software that supports HPE server hardware. We maintain a collection of system management products that we either operate as a SaaS or license to our 
customers. We’re part of the Compute business unit which is responsible for selling and supporting server hardware.

Job Description
The VM/Hypervisor Expert is a role for a moderately experienced engineer that can work independently with mentors and other technical experts. They need to be skilled at managing and configuring hypervisors, building and automating virtual machines, and helping accelerate how other teams use these tools. They 
also need to be able to learn an expanded skillset over time including integrating on-premise and cloud VMs into a large build pipeline, designing test automations that leverage ephemeral/immutable VMs, and working with IaaS tools (Terraform) in AWS and in on-prem datacenters.

Responsibilities specific to this role include:

• Deploying, configuring, automating, and monitoring several hypervisor solutions that will be used for development and product validation. (HPE VME, VMWare vCenter, Nutanix AHV, and Hyper-V)
• Integrating and automating product testing on a matrix of hypervisor/VM products and versions
• Participate in on-call support as part of a rotational schedule

Required Skills

• Typically 4-7 years experience
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or closely related quantitative discipline, or comparable work experience
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Experience managing all aspects of hypervisor platforms including installation, operation, performance, and availability
• Experience automating deployments in AWS and on-prem, automating a server bring-up including power-on, OS installation, OS configuration, applications installation
• General knowledge of basic IT functions like monitoring, alerting, single sign-on, basic networking, firewalls, etc.
• Production experience with Linux
• Experience building, testing, packaging, and shipping production software in an end-to-end build pipeline
• Git

Nice-to-have Skills

• Terraform
• Experience building solutions in AWS on EC2 and EC2 Metal
• Github Actions
• Packer
• Vagrant
• ArgoCD
• Experience deploying, managing, and using Kubernetes (not EKS)
• Experience building Docker containers
• Python or Go experience
• Experience with health and performance monitoring with tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience navigating the organizational dynamics and complexities of large enterprises

About Our Products

HPE sells a lot of server hardware. We build software to help our customers manage that hardware. Our Compute Ops Management (COM) SaaS product helps admins get their hardware up-and-running quickly while keeping them patched and uniformly configured. Our COM Secure Gateway product compliments COM and gives customers a more secure way to connect 
their servers to COM. Finally, OneView is our mature system management application that is licensed to customers for use in their datacenters. It provides a self-hosted solution to system management and can be used in combination with COM.

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)

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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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_03

    

States with Pay Range Requirement

The expected salary/wage range for a U.S.-based hire filling this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. If this is a sales role, then the listed salary range reflects combined base salary and target-level sales compensation pay. If this is a non-sales role, then the listed salary range reflects base salary only. Variable incentives may also be offered. Information about employee benefits offered can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.

USD Annual Salary: $123,500.00 - $234,500.00

The estimated job application period closure is December 15 2025; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.