Cloud Developer - Networking

Cloud Developer - Networking This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office. Who We Are: 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 Description: In the HPE Hybrid Cloud, we lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for all of HPE. This includes managing the design, development, and product portfolio of our next-generation cloud platform, Green Lake. Working with customers, we help them reimagine their information technology needs to deliver a simple, consumable solution that helps them drive their business results. Join us redefine what’s next for you. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Networking Specialist to join our team focused on software solutions for our VM Essentials customers. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing Data Plane layer of the Software Defined Networking (SDN)  enhancements to VM Essentials customers in highly scalable, enterprise private cloud-based, distributed architectures. What you’ll do: Design, and development of the HPE SDN Data Plane for VM Essentials, covering Layer 2/3 networking, distributed routing and switching, overlays, tunneling, and high-performance packet forwarding. Define scalable interfaces and programming models across configuration, control, and data planes for routes, next hops, interfaces, VRFs, bridge domains, MAC/IP entries, tunnels, multicast state, and related forwarding objects. Design state synchronization, reconciliation, reconnect, warm-restart, upgrade, and recovery mechanisms that preserve forwarding consistency and minimize traffic disruption. Extend EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS, IPv4/IPv6, bridging, MAC/IP learning, integrated routing and bridging, multi-homing, BUM forwarding, and overlay/underlay capabilities. Optimize packet processing with DPDK, Linux networking, SR--IOV, hardware acceleration and interfaces such as veth, virtio, vhost-user, and TAP/TUN. Improve throughput, latency, CPU and memory efficiency, and route, MAC, flow, tunnel, and compute-node scale. Root-cause analysis across configuration, control, and data planes for forwarding failures, stale state, race conditions, crashes, memory issues, and performance regressions.