Solutions Automation Engineer

Solutions Automation Engineer

This role has been designed as "Onsite" with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

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.

Job Family Definition:

Designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products. Develops software including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases and Internet-related tools. Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent. Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization.

What You'll Do:

You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable test environments that emulate real-world customer SD-WAN deployments—including both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures.

You will also develop automated test frameworks and test cases that validate solution functionality, performance, and resiliency across diverse topologies and routing architectures, leveraging automation tools such as Python, Robot, Ansible, and Terraform to orchestrate full-stack environments.

This role requires deep familiarity with network routing concepts and hands-on experience automating infrastructure and test environments—it is not a generic software QA position.

Responsibilities:

Network and System Expertise:

• Configure and validate routing topologies using BGP, OSPF, and policy-based routing for seamless network integration.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot network or platform issues identified through monitoring and testing.
• Develop and execute performance, scalability, and regression tests for end-to-end validation.

Automation and Infrastructure:

• Design, develop, and automate solution tests to replicate real-world SD-WAN scenarios using Python, Robot, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Build and maintain scalable test environments using AWS, OpenStack, KVM, and similar platforms.
• Automate traffic generation (Spirent, Cyberflood, iPerf, or similar tools) to validate throughput, resiliency, and failover across complex topologies.
• Contribute to continuous integration infrastructure (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and implement test monitoring and reporting standards.

Collaboration and Quality:

• Mentor junior engineers and help define best practices for automation and test quality.
• Participate in design and code reviews to ensure testability and reliability are built in from the start.
• Partner with development and support teams to reproduce and resolve customer-reported issues.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement in testing processes, tools, and efficiency.

What You Need To Bring:

Required:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in software testing or development in networking or SD-WAN domains.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with automation frameworks (Robot, Ansible, Terraform).
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, and SD-WAN data communications.
• Experience developing and testing on Linux systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring tools.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex distributed systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and comfort collaborating across global, cross-functional teams.

Preferred:

• Experience with network performance tools (Spirent, Cyberflood, IXIA, iPerf).
• Familiarity with hybrid WAN environments and large-scale customer topology simulations.
• Knowledge of SD-WAN controllers, overlay networks, and tunnel orchestration.
• Experience with Agile and test-driven development processes.
• Exposure to AI-driven or telemetry-based network assurance systems.

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You:

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.