Federal Principal Product Support Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Location
Oklahoma City, OKDallas, TXHouston, TXMontgomery, AL
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Full-time
Posted
176 days ago
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a global enterprise technology company providing servers, storage, networking, and hybrid cloud solutions along with advisory and operational services to enterprises worldwide. Industry: Enterprise Technology & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Federal Principal Product Support Engineer

The Federal Principal Product Support Engineer serves as a senior field-engineering technical bridge between on-site federal customer teams and the business unit engineering organization. You will perform hands-on diagnostics across the full infrastructure stack, including bare metal, hypervisors, networking, and containerized workloads. Daily responsibilities involve triaging complex escalations, performing log analysis, and delivering structured defect reports to drive permanent product fixes. You will utilize technologies such as VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, KVM/libvirt, Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows Server. Additionally, you will manage enterprise networking, cloud integrations, and DISA STIG compliance. This role solves critical production issues within HPE Private Cloud Enterprise environments, ensuring operational security and stability while providing technical enablement and training for managed services field engineers.

What you'll do

  • Perform hands-on diagnostics across the full infrastructure stack including bare metal, hypervisors, networking, and containerized workloads.
  • Triage complex technical escalations from on-site teams to identify root causes in live production environments.
  • Write structured defect reports and technical requirements for HPE engineering teams to drive permanent product fixes.
  • Validate engineering patches and product updates in customer environments before broader production rollout.
  • Train managed services field engineers by producing runbooks, leading technical walkthroughs, and developing onboarding materials.
  • Lead DISA STIG compliance efforts, including system hardening and audit readiness for federal customer environments.
  • Monitor customer environments to triage alerts and improve observability dashboards and operational tooling.
  • Author customer-facing incident summaries and internal knowledge base articles following major technical resolutions.

What we're looking for

  • U.S. Citizenship is required.
  • Active Secret clearance is required or the ability to obtain one.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or technical support.
  • Demonstrated depth in at least three domains: VMware/KVM, Kubernetes, Linux, Enterprise Networking, Windows Server, or Hybrid Cloud.
  • Proven experience in hands-on troubleshooting across the full infrastructure stack, including bare metal, hypervisors, networking, and applications.
  • Proven experience interfacing between field support teams and engineering organizations to write structured defect reports.
  • Experience with enterprise monitoring/observability platforms and ITSM ticketing systems.

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