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HPE is seeking a Principal Product Support Engineer (Level 4) to serve as the primary technical bridge between on-site federal customer teams and HPE’s Business Unit engineering organization. Role nature: This is a senior field-engineering position, not a traditional support or escalation-management role. You will work hands-on across the full infrastructure stack — from bare metal and hypervisors to networking, containerized workloads, and application-layer issues. Technical depth across multiple layers of the stack is a core requirement; you will be expected to access nodes directly, review system logs, and diagnose live production environments. How escalations work: You serve as the primary engineering escalation point for on-site support teams. When a field team surfaces a vague symptom — 'this service isn't responding' — you take ownership: filter the noise, reproduce and isolate the root cause, and deliver a structured defect report with clear reproduction steps that HPE's product engineers can act on immediately. You will drive permanent fixes, contribute to product improvements, and keep customers' HPE Private Cloud Enterprise environments operational and secure.
Job Responsibility:
Receiving escalations from on-site Level 1–3 teams, triaging root cause hands-on, and owning the technical path to resolution across the full infrastructure stack
Engaging directly with HPE engineers: writing structured defect reports with reproduction steps, attending engineering triage calls, and validating patches in customer environments before broader rollout
Translating field-observed symptoms into actionable technical requirements for product and engineering teams
Training and enabling a managed services team field engineers who are new to the PCE platform
Monitoring customer environments
triaging alerts and contributing to dashboard and observability improvements
Conducting on-site work at customer locations
Hardening environments to DISA STIG requirements and supporting audit readiness activities
Producing customer-facing incident summaries and internal knowledge base articles after each major resolution
Act as the primary conduit between on-site support teams and HPE BU engineering
Own escalations that have exceeded Level 3 resolution capacity
Participate in engineering standups, triage calls, and sprint reviews
Validate engineering fixes, patches, and product updates
Lead in-depth, hands-on diagnostics directly on the full infrastructure stack using log analysis, and service-level debugging
Identify root causes for recurring issues
architect permanent resolutions and drive systemic fixes through engineering
Work within platform monitoring and alerting
manage and triage incidents routed through ITOM/ITSM
Identify gaps in dashboards, alerting thresholds, and operational visibility
Contribute to the continuous improvement of observability tooling
Train and enable a managed services team of field engineers
Develop platform onboarding materials, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides
Lead DISA STIG compliance efforts
Support system hardening, audit preparation, and continuous compliance monitoring
Apply security best practices across all supported platforms
Document and communicate product gaps, field-observed defects, and enhancement opportunities
Develop automation and tooling using DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code where applicable
Author detailed troubleshooting guides, runbooks, and technical documentation
Serve as the trusted technical advisor to federal stakeholders
Deliver executive-readable incident summaries alongside deeply technical root cause analyses
Build and maintain long-term relationships with federal client technical and program teams
Guide and mentor Level 1–3 support engineers
Lead knowledge transfer sessions following major resolutions
Requirements:
U.S. Citizenship (required without exception)
Active Secret clearance, or demonstrated ability to obtain one (U.S. citizen with clean background)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience
10+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or technical support — with demonstrated depth in at least three of the following domains: VMware (ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX) and/or KVM/libvirt — both are relevant
KVM experience is highly desired
Kubernetes and containerized workloads (hands-on cluster operations, not solely architectural review)
Linux systems administration and live troubleshooting (Red Hat, Ubuntu, or similar)
Proven, hands-on troubleshooting experience across the full infrastructure stack — direct access to production environments, log analysis, and live system debugging spanning bare metal, hypervisor, networking, and application layers are daily requirements of this role
Proven experience interfacing between field/support teams and engineering or product organizations, including writing structured defect reports
Strong written communication skills: able to produce engineering-quality defect reports and executive-readable incident summaries
Experience with enterprise monitoring/observability platforms (OpsRamp, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent) and ITSM ticketing systems (ServiceNow or equivalent)
KVM/libvirt hands-on experience, or demonstrated ability to rapidly transition between hypervisor platforms
VMware certifications: VCP-DCV, VCAP, or higher
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)