Chief Technologist - Network Management and Automation

Chief Technologist - Network Management and Automation

  

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

   

Role Overview:

We are seeking a senior network management and automation specialist to lead strategy and execution for HPE’s network management solutions. This role focuses on helping customers manage their HPE Networking deployments using our own management systems, improving interoperability with third-party tools and open-source ecosystems, and implementing automation to perform network management and troubleshooting tasks. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in networking with strong integration and automation skills to drive consistency and innovation across HPE’s networking portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop Network Management Strategy

• Create an inventory of current network management products and modules, becoming familiar with their capabilities
• Identify customer segments, coverage areas, and gaps in functionality.
• Assess opportunities for NMS consolidation and develop a strategic blueprint.
• Define actionable workstreams for tool sunset, merge, or migration.

Third-Party Integration Enablement

• Analyze how customers manage HPE networks using third-party tools.
• Improve interoperability through contributions to open-source projects, configuration guides, and plugins (e.g., Grafana/Telegraf pipelines, LibreNMS playbooks).
• Lead product improvements for better integration with third-party tools.
• Publish integration guides and reference dashboards for popular ecosystems.

Automation and AIOps Expertise

• Become the cross-product subject matter expert on deploying automation for network management, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experiment with AI technologies including foundational models, AI agents, MCP, and similar technologies.  Develop a strategy around how the business unit should make use of these technologies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

While we don’t expect candidates to have expertise in every technology listed, successful candidates will be able to show experience with a high percentage of these areas.

• Domain Expertise: Network Management Systems (Enterprise & Service Provider), FCAPS, multi-vendor environments.
• General Networking: TCP/IP, Ethernet switching, routing (OSPF, BGP), MPLS, Wi-Fi, network firewalls
• Protocols & Telemetry: SNMPv2c/v3, NetFlow/IPFIX, sFlow, syslog, gNMI, NETCONF/RESTCONF, YANG models, OpenConfig, OpenTelemetry.
• Open Source & Integrations: Grafana/Telegraf, Prometheus, ELK/Opensearch stacks, Kafka pipelines, LibreNMS; building plugins/exporters/dashboards.
• Automation & Scripting: Python or Go; Ansible/Terraform/Nornir; CI/CD; API design/consumption; Linux; containers/K8s.
• Architecture & Data: Data modeling, streaming pipelines, time-series storage, scaling/HA, multi-tenant design.
• Security & Compliance: AAA, RBAC, secrets management, cert lifecycle, auditability, policy/compliance.
• Communication & Influence: Ability to produce clear, authoritative roadmaps, decision memos, and developer-grade docs; strong cross-BU facilitation.

Preferred Experience:

• 8–12+ years in network management/observability/automation roles (enterprise or telco).
• Delivered production-grade integrations with at least two third-party ecosystems (e.g., Grafana/Prometheus, ELK, LibreNMS).
• Experience with model-driven telemetry and YANG/OpenConfig implementations.
• Experience with AI technologies such as agentic AI and MCP

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, 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_06

    

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 153,500 - 310,500 in California // 135,000 - 310,500 in Illinois & Iowa & Virginia
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

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

   

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