Networking Architect

This role has been designated as ‘Edge’, which means you will primarily work outside of an HPE office.

**Who We Are**:
**Aruba** is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some the largest companies in the world modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future, Aruba is redefining the “Intelligent Edge” - and creating new customer experiences across intelligent spaces and digital workspaces.

**Aruba Wired Networking Lab brief**

This requirement is for a Technical Architect (Master) in the Aruba Wired R&D lab in HPE Bangalore; Aruba Networking is a key product R&D group within HPE with focus on networking products (switches/routers/access points/controllers)

Aruba Wired Networking R&D team is working on products for the campus market across the edge, aggregator and core markets and for the branch networking markets. Aruba switches offer high performance, scalability, and a wide range of features for core to edge connectivity that dramatically reduces network complexity and lowers cost of ownership.

We are looking for Technical Architect positions to lead and drive the development of the future enterprise networking products and solutions. Architects play key hands-on roles in multi-discipline teams working on new and next generation products and solutions. This includes owning product architecture, product feature definition, software design, SW development and test, customer interaction. Projects typically involve coordination with internal and external development partners.

**What you’ll do**:
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Senior level network and firmware architect to define and lead Enterprise/Campus Switch product efforts.
- Involves designing, specifying and leading the implementation of the networking features.
- Includes working with product marketing, tracking industry trends, and gathering customer feedback with the intent of driving those results into a superior comprehensive network architecture/product.
- Work often involves cross organizational interactions: Hardware, Firmware, System management, Network teams, Sales teams, Architects, other organizations, etc. to arrive at best solutions.
- Demonstrates strong domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of senior management, development partners and the eco system
- Develops architectures and methodologies for software systems design and development across multiple platforms
- Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with systems design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
- Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects/product roadmap and activities in the software systems design organization.
- Strong ability to negotiate and build consensus in engineering community on technical decisions
- Must excel at communication at multiple organization levels: customer, executives, ODMs & 3rd party development, and engineering teams

**What you need to bring**:
**Education and Experience**
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent
- 15+ years of experience

**Specialized Expertise (must have)**
- IKE and IPSEC
- IDS, IPS technologies (includes anomaly detection, identifying security breaches etc)
- Firewall product architecture and implementation.
- Cisco 9300x (or similar) product experience

**Required Domain Expertise: Enterprise networking products with expertise in L2/L3/Security Protocols & Features**

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Experience designing and developing firmware for switches and/or network controllers.
- Strong Operating System experience - Linux, VxWorks etc
- Knowledge of ASIC architectures - e.g. Broadcom, etc
- Expert knowledge in C
- Extensive experience in overall architecture of firmware and interaction with hardware designs for products and solutions.
- Designing and integrating network solutions into overall architecture and hardware design across multiple platforms
- Working Knowledge of advanced networking concepts - L2(xSTP, VLAN, LACP, LLDP, TRILL), L3 (OSPF, BGP, Tunnels), Multicast (PIM, IGMP), IPv6, Security (RADIUS/TACACS, SSH, Access Contrl), ACL/QoS.
- Experience on both platform dependent and platform independent networking protocol and infrastructure work.
- Ability to internalize standards (IEEE, IETF) and convert into deliverables - design/code etc
- History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software, firmware, or network design
- Experience with Network Development Tools - Sniffer, Traffic Generators, IXIA, Spirent etc
- Strong Network troubleshooting ability encompassing: OS, Network Stack, Sniffers, switches, external network.
- Strong Network troubleshooting ability
- Experience using version control system - ex. GIT/Clearcase
- Ability to create white pap