Cloud Consultant

Cloud Consultant

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week 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:

Job Description

Aruba is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some of 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. Join us redefine what's next for you.

Job Family Definition:

The Cloud Consultant guides and supports HPE's clients through their digital transformation, and thinks strategically and long-term about the complex business and technical needs of customers.

Deeply evaluates customer applications for the strategic and functional transition from internal systems to external virtual cloud-based platforms. Acts as a trusted value advisor to HPE's customers in the development of their cloud computing strategy, providing recommendations for cloud migrations, technical implementation roadmaps, and adoption plans.

Designs state-of-the-art public, multi, and hybrid cloud technology solutions, achieving scalability, reliability, security, and performance.

Builds influential relationships with executives including the C-level when necessary. Proactively defines an effective engagement model with the customer's key influencers and decision-makers.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions include applying developed subject matter expertise to solve common and sometimes complex technical problems and recommending alternatives where necessary. Might act as project lead and provide assistance to lower level professionals. Exercises independent judgment and consults with others to determine best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives.

What you'll do:

• Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure (IaaS / PaaS / serverless) ensuring high availability, scalability, security, disaster recovery, monitoring, and cost-optimization.
• Design, build, and manage CI/CD pipelines; automate build, test, release, rollback, and deployment workflows.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.
• Containerization and orchestration: deploy, manage, and scale container‐based workloads (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Monitoring, observability, logging, alerting: set up tools, dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis.
• Security & compliance: integrate security best practices into pipelines; manage IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning; ensure compliance with standards as relevant (e.g. ISO, SOC, GDPR, PCI, etc.).
• Performance tuning, capacity planning and resource provisioning.
• Automation of repetitive tasks, configuration management, and process improvements.
• Manage cloud costs: budgeting, tracking cost metrics, identifying waste, optimizing usage.
• Incident management and on-call support: respond to incidents, do post-mortems, propose improvements.
• Collaborate with multiple teams (development, QA, security, operations) to align on best practices, deployment processes, SLAs, etc.
• Mentor / guide junior/mid DevOps engineers or CloudOps engineers; help raise the maturity of DevOps practices in the organization.

What you need to bring:

• Bachelor's degree in a related area of study with typically 7-8 years' experience; master's degree desirable.

Knowledge and Skills:

• 6-8 years of hands-on experience in DevOps / CloudOps / SRE or similar roles.
• In-depth knowledge of various cloud technologies, virtualization, networking, and storage.
• Deep experience with at least one of the major cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP), including core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM, database, etc.).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, etc.).
• Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE or self-managed), including experience with operators, scaling, lifecycle, upgrades.
• CI/CD pipeline tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar; experience setting up pipelines that are automated, reliable, secure, fast.
• Scripting / programming: Bash / Shell, Python, Go, or equivalent; able to write automation for infrastructure, deployment, monitoring.
• Expertise in monitoring/logging/observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / EFK stack, Datadog, etc.
• Strong understanding of networking (VPC, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, routing) in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Security posture: IAM, secrets management, encryption (at rest/in transit), vulnerability assessments, compliance frameworks.
• Experience in performance optimization, capacity planning, resource management, and cost control in cloud ecosystems.
• Experience managing large-scale systems, high availability, disaster recovery.
• Experience with hybrid / multi-cloud architectures is a plus.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical thinking.
• Strong communication skills; ability to collaborate across teams.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Business Planning, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migrations, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Hybrid Clouds, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) {+ 10 more}

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.

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