Infrastructure Engineer

Palo Alto, CA, United States

Job Summary

This role is responsible for overseeing the design, development, and optimization of embedded software and firmware for hardware products. The role contributes innovative ideas and leads large cross-functional teams, exercising independent judgment to solve unique and complex problems impacting the business. The role acts as a functional manager within area of expertise, developing strategy and setting functional policy and direction. The role provides mentorship and guidance to lower-level employees, thus, ensuring the realization of operational and strategic plans.

Responsibilities

Leads the preparation and creation of instructional technical manuscripts for firmware operation.

Reviews firmware code, provides technical feedback, and ensures adherence to coding standards and best practices.

Manages resources to complete programming projects, and designs detailed plans to ensure firmware is functioning properly.

Leads multiple project teams of other software firmware engineers and internal and outsourced development partners responsible for all stages of design and development for complex products and platforms.

Works with product architects, firmware teams, product managers and provides critical guidance, system-level debugging and troubleshooting to various teams, as a Subject Matter Expert.

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.

Manages and expands relationships with internal and outsourced development partners on firmware design and development.

Serves as an expert on all firmware related topics and acts as overall firmware leadership to provide perspective to cross- organization projects, programs, and activities.

Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the firmware design organization.

Mentors less-experienced software firmware engineers and help guide them to successful deliverables.

Education & Experience Recommended

Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.

Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in firmware development, or a related field.

Preferred Certifications

NA

Knowledge & Skills

The role to support continuous integration and continuous delivery is an expansive one and will require a broad set of responsibilities including, but not limited to:

Create and maintain multi-stage CI/CD pipelines for a many repositories in low level firmware, application firmware, and cloud solutions that contain testing, scans, publishing, etc.

Provide support for tools, accounts, and systems used by development team

Create and maintain Infrastructure, with an emphasis on infrastructure as code

Provide observability and monitoring capabilities for deployments

Create and maintain a shared development environment for developers

While the development teams own their quality, the Infrastructure role will be responsible for several facets of QA possibly including automation around journey testing, performance testing, canary testing, contract testing, integration testing, etc.

Familiarity with the following technologies are considered beneficial:

HP Codeway and HP Runway

Terraform/Terragrunt

Azure DevOps

Splunk

Git Hub

AWS Services

Harbor

Apigee

MongoDB/Mongo Atlas

CloudAMQP

Launch Darkly

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Cross-Org Skills

Effective Communication

Results Orientation

Learning Agility

Digital Fluency

Customer Centricity

Impact & Scope

Impacts large functions and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.

Complexity

Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.

Disclaimer

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

*Dental insurance

*Disability insurance

*Employee assistance program

*Flexible schedule

*Flexible spending account

*Health insurance

*Life insurance

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is $143850 - $221550 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO):

HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).