Software Engineer -Network Security ManagementThis role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with a requirement 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:

About HPE Networking, SASE & Security

HPE Networking Business Unit, powered by the Aruba Networks, Juniper Networks and Axis Security portfolios, delivers secure, AI-driven networking solutions that connect users, devices, applications, and data across campus, branch, data centre, WAN, data centre, and cloud environments. HPE Networking BU enables organizations to modernize infrastructure through on-prem, hybrid and cloud-native management, automation, AIOps-driven operations, and high-performance wired, wireless, routing, and switching and security solutions, while supporting seamless hybrid work experiences with scalability, resiliency, and operational simplicity.

HPE Networking BU’s SASE and Security Group develops solutions that provide a unified, cloud-delivered architecture that combines networking and security capabilities for the modern edge-to-cloud enterprise. The portfolio integrates SD-WAN, Secure Service Edge (SSE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), CASB, Secure Routing, Unified Endpoint Client and AI-Native network operations capabilities to deliver secure and optimized access for users regardless of location.

Our technologies help enterprises reduce complexity, improve operational efficiency, strengthen cyber resilience, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. By leveraging AI-powered insights, centralized policy enforcement, intelligent network automation, and identity-based security, HPE delivers comprehensive edge-to-cloud networking and security solutions that enable secure, agile, and future-ready digital infrastructure for enterprises worldwide.

What you’ll do:

Responsibilities:

Responsible for designing and building Security Director, an enterprise-scale security orchestration and management platform delivered as a cloud-native, microservices-based solution for managing network security across multi-cloud and on-premises environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and virtualization platforms such as VMware and KVM. This role focuses on developing high-performance backend services in Go and Java, building and operating gRPC/REST APIs, and contributing to platform reliability, observability, and secure authentication/authorization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate high-performance, scalable microservices for security orchestration and policy management.
• Build and maintain service APIs using gRPC/Protocol Buffers and REST/OpenAPI standards.
• Develop cloud-native services designed for Kubernetes deployment and multi-cloud portability.
• Implement event-driven and asynchronous workflows using Kafka and queueing patterns
• Deliver robust data-layer integrations and performance improvements for PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Build platform-grade observability using Prometheus metrics and distributed tracing to support reliability and troubleshooting.
• Improve developer productivity and release reliability by contributing to CI/CD pipelines and build tooling (including Bazel where applicable).
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of junior engineers. Technologies / Components in Scope
• Go (1.24+), Java (Spring Boot / Spring Framework, Jakarta EE) • gRPC, Protocol Buffers, REST, OpenAPI/Swagger •
• PostgreSQL, Redis (multiple client implementations) • Apache Kafka (Confluent, Sarama) and Redis-based queues • Observability: Prometheus, distributed tracing, structured logging (SLF4J/Logback) • Container platform: Docker, Kubernetes, Kubernetes client libraries • Build & delivery: Bazel…