Manager, Cloud Developer - Virtualization

Manager, Cloud Developer I - Virtualization

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next.

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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Join HPE’s team and help shape the virtualization stack powering hybrid cloud solutions for the world’s largest enterprises. As a Cloud Developer Manager, you won’t just manage VMs — you’ll both scale, optimize, and evolve the platform itself and the amazing engineering talent powering it all. From high-performance virtual compute, network, and storage to secure workload isolation and dynamic scheduling, your work will directly influence the direction of HPE’s virtualization software and solutions, used across global enterprise environments.

• You will be responsible for leading a distributed engineering team focused on virtualization infrastructure software development.
• You will plan and deliver features for multiple ongoing projects and manage resource allocation accordingly.
• You will ensure that goals, objectives, timelines and budgets are met in accordance with program and organizational roadmaps.
• You will manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including expectations regarding deliverables, quality, schedule and cost.
• You will proactively identify process improvement and cost reduction opportunities and achieve operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning.
• You will provide people management for team members, including hiring, performance goals, coaching, and career development.
• You will build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results with high quality.
• You will implement project management skills, including time and risk management, resource prioritization and project structuring.
• You will partner with architects and engineering leadership to develop and deliver competitive roadmaps.
• You will assist customer issues as needed, provide RCA insights and help ensure technical standards and documentation requirements are met.
• You will stay updated on industry trends and technology changes to help drive innovation into the business.
• You will collaborate with sales, engineering, and operational teams to understand customer needs and recommend solutions.
• You will learn about operational challenges faced by engineering teams and assist in developing risk‑mitigating strategies to address them.

• You have succinct business acumen and strong leadership skills, including coaching, team building, and conflict resolution.
• You have solid individual and team-level multitasking and prioritization skills.
• You have experience in Java, Groovy, and/or other object‑oriented languages. Ruby or Python experience is a plus.
• You have experience working with virtualization or container infrastructure technologies such as KVM, libvirt, QEMU, Kubernetes, Docker and Podman.
• You have experience developing for compute, storage or networking products and solutions.
• You have experience developing for and debugging in Linux kernel/OS environments.
• You have working knowledge of storage infrastructure technologies such as Ceph, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, GFS2 and similar.
• You have experience with build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle), version control systems (e.g., Git), and CI/CD pipelines.
• You have eagerness to learn and apply cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• You have strong communication and presentation skills with architects, business unit and executive leaders.
• You take complete ownership of projects and mistakes, possess problem‑solving skills, and have tremendous self‑drive.
• You thrive in…