Aruba Networks
Vice President, Aruba Cloud Software Engineering (Project Management)
Company Background:
Aruba is a HPE company and is the industry leader in Wired, Wireless LAN, Security and Intelligent edge solutions with ~$3B in revenues. Its solutions are used by Global 2000 enterprises, SME customers including public sector, local, state government, education entities around the world. Aruba continues to experience strong growth across its entire solution portfolio and is in the midst of cloud transformation of its software products leveraging AI/ML for NMS< service assurance, user experience management. Aruba's solutions are based on a cloud agnostic platform and are designed to operate across multiple cloud providers including public cloud as well VPC deployments. Aruba is looking to hire a senior engineering leader to manage the cloud NMS and applications organization.
Leadership Responsibilities and Experience Profile:
This position will be based in Santa Clara and will be responsible for managing a large geographically distributed engineering organization of 200+ person Dev/Test Engineering in US, India and potentially expanding to other locations. This Cloud Engineering leader will be responsible to drive the next phase of innovation of the Aruba Cloud Platform and applications working closely with peer functions, organizations across the infrastructure teams. The leader of this organization will have demonstrable experience managing large multi-site, cross functional teams, driving process improvements, defining engineering productivity, quality metrics and delivering products per the TTM, quality and productivity goals. Experience planning, coordinating a busy product delivery calendar with complex dependencies across teams, infrastructure products and large sub systems within the cloud solution would be key for achieving success in this role. Experience defining horizontally scalable, cloud native software solutions, managing a team of senior engineering leaders, technical, solution architects to harness and channel the best ideas for successful product delivery a must. Knowledge of large public cloud IaaS, PaaS solutions is a plus. Ability to understand the technical nuances, strategic implications of decisions and their business impact, maturity to ask the “right the questions” as part of the decision process is a must.
Cultural fit:
This leader is expected to be passionate about their people, organization with a deep sense of commitment for a transparent leadership style, foster teamwork and collaboration across distributed teams. This leader will have a natural affinity to guide, mentor, motivate teams and groom successors and next generation leaders in the org. Moving in a fast paced environment, being responsive to ever changing customer, business demands would be second nature to this person. An extraordinary commitment to the belief that the “customer comes first” and customer success, satisfaction guides all decisions, actions is a pre-requisite. This person will have a natural competitive spirit with a strong determination to beat competition and drive market success for Aruba's portfolio with seamless execution.
Qualifications:
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