Performance Automation Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • San Jose, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Networking and Security DevOps team is seeking a talented, hands‑on Performance Automation Engineer who thrives in a fast‑paced environment. This role is ideal for someone skilled in performance tuning and Linux system optimization, looking to join a collaborative team and make a direct impact on critical SD‑WAN Edge Connect services. You will play a key role in performance analysis, tuning, troubleshooting, and optimizing hardware, virtual, and cloud‑based services running on Linux.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in the networking industry.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience and knowledge in automation using Python.
• 5 plus years of experience in C programming and debugging.
• Experience with Linux as a traffic generator.
• Working experience with Intel E810 or similar network cards.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals – algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, and excellent knowledge of programming.
• Hands on experience with Fedora Core or Ubuntu.
• Experience with Spirent or IXIA traffic generator.
• High degree of competency working with multi-threaded development.
• Strong troubleshooting and optimization skills.
• 3 plus years of working experience with DPDK.
• Hands on knowledge of profiling/debugging/network traffic generating tools such as iperf, Nuttcp, Nmap, etc.
• A desire to constantly grow and learn new things.
• In this team you will be exposed to new technologies and new problems.
• Ability to assimilate new ideas and tackle tough problems as they arise will be the key to success.
• Familiarity with tools and system administration using MySQL, Docker Swarm, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience with wide-area-networking and network virtualization.
• Good communication skills, written and verbal, along with the ability to communicate complex procedures.

Nice To Haves

• Cross Domain Knowledge
• Design Thinking
• Development Fundamentals
• Full Stack Development
• Release Management
• Security-First Mindset
• User Experience (UX)

Responsibilities

• Enable complex performance testing and monitoring of HPE Networking SD-WAN products to ensure system level objectives are met.
• Collaborate with Engineering to proactively troubleshoot performance related issues and provide input on implementation considerations to ensure better performance metrics.
• Automate and maintain methods to deploy new testbeds in next-generation SD-WAN platforms for performance testing.
• Manage day-to-day operations to ensure the performance testbeds are configured appropriately for consistent execution of tests.
• Deploy new features and functionalities to performance testing frameworks.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level