Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is looking to orchestrate the software release process for HPE Networking's SSR network product, streamline automation workflows, and ensure seamless product delivery.
Requirements
- Hands-on with Git & CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub), artifact management, and environment promotion workflows.
- Cloud-native fundamentals: dockers; familiarity with cloud (AWS/Azure); scripting (Python/Bash) for automation.
- Working software knowledge: Groovy & Python to create automation and CI/CD functions, and Tableau & Snowflake to review and retrieve results.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes.
- Exposure to progressive delivery & flags, infra-as-code (Terraform/Helm), and observability stacks (e.g., Grafana, Kibana/ELK).
- Experience in enterprise networking domains (campus/SD-WAN/data center), AIOps/observability, or HPE Juniper portfolio (Mist, Apstra, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Own the release lifecycle for multiple products/services: planning, readiness reviews, coordinated cutovers, verification, and post-release learning.
- Run the release calendar and program cadences; align with other teams and organizations on scope, dates, and risk.
- Operate & improve CI/CD promotion flows (Dev Test/UAT Prod), enforcing approvals, gates, and progressive delivery.
- Execute and track release path work, validate entrance/exit criteria, triage blockers, and escalate with clear owners/ETAs.
- Maintain change records & evidence in Jira/Confluence for full traceability of features, tests, approvals, and outcomes.
- Manage incidents & rollbacks: publish playbooks, run go/no-go, coordinate cutbacks, lead post-mortems, and drive corrective actions with SRE.
- Publish stakeholder comms and release notes (internal/external), coordinate freeze windows, and communicate customer impact and maintenance windows.
Other
- This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
- 5–8+ years in Release Management/DevOps/SDLC ownership in SaaS, networking, or platform teams.
- Operational judgment: crisp communications under time pressure, data-driven go/no-go decisions, and the ability to influence without authority.
- Westford, MA, hybrid in office policies; occasional off-hours coverage
- HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.
