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The Vice President of Reliability will define and lead the global reliability strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap for shared platform services. This leader will build and scale high-performing engineering teams while establishing modern SRE practices and operational excellence across the organization.
Candidates must have 15+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or reliability engineering, with at least 8 years in senior leadership roles. A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field is required, with a Ph.D. preferred, alongside proven success in scaling engineering teams at a global technology company.
HP is a technology company founded on the belief that companies should do more than simply generate profit. Having helped shape Silicon Valley decades ago, HP continues to invest deeply in innovation across its broad product portfolio to advance how people live and work. We envision a world where technology improves lives everywhere. At HP, great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time—and one idea can change the world. Today, HP is among the world’s most sustainable, just, and inclusive technology companies.
The CTO, Software organization at HP is a global team of thousands of engineers and leaders shaping the future of how software and platform technologies power HP’s product portfolio. The organization is responsible for the vision, strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations of the software and platform technology stacks behind HP’s products. These include modern, AI-native, end-to-end platforms spanning developer experience, data and AI, security, infrastructure, reliability and device software, as well as software stacks for customer-facing HP applications. Our mission is to deliver magical, AI-enabled experiences to tens of millions of customers worldwide. Beyond powering today’s products, the organization also helps define and shape HP’s next era of growth through technology innovation and active engagement across the software and AI ecosystems.
The Vice President, Reliability is a senior leadership role within the CTO, Software organization responsible for defining and leading the reliability strategy and execution for the shared platform services that power our products and digital experiences. This leader will ensure these platforms are highly available, resilient, observable, performant, and operationally excellent at a global scale.
This role is central to CTO, Software’s platform operating model and to HP’s broader software-led transformation. The Vice President, Reliability will help accelerate engineering velocity, improve customer experience and trust, reduce operational risk, and expand the impact of shared platform capabilities across the company. This leader will establish the standards, mechanisms, and culture required to build and operate reliable systems at scale across a complex, multi-domain engineering environment.
Reporting to the VP, Platform Engineering under the Chief Technology Officer, Software, this executive will serve as a trusted partner to engineering leaders and business stakeholders across HP. This role offers the opportunity to shape how thousands of engineers build, operate, and scale software in one of the world’s most established technology companies—a long-standing Fortune 100 company with more than 28,000 patents, over $55 billion in annual revenue, and 58,000 employees worldwide.
Responsibilities
Define and lead the reliability vision, strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap for shared platform services across developer experience, data and AI, security, and infrastructure.
Build and lead a high-performing, inclusive organization of reliability, observability, performance, and resilience leaders and engineers.
Establish and scale modern site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, including AI-enabled SRE, service-level objectives and indicators, error budgets, production readiness reviews, service maturity models, reliability consulting, and embedded SRE engagement models.
Lead the observability platform and strategy, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, telemetry standards, service health visibility, and developer-facing operational tooling.
Own incident management and resilience operations, including major incident command, escalation models, on-call standards, blameless postmortems, disaster recovery, resilience exercises, and fault-injection testing.
Lead performance and scalability engineering, including load testing, performance profiling, latency optimization, capacity forecasting, and scale validation for critical platform services.
Drive operational intelligence and automation, including operational metrics, service insights, anomaly detection, and the application of AI to improve reliability engineering and operational response.
Partner closely with platform, product, security, and engineering executives to embed reliability into architecture, delivery, and operations across the software lifecycle.
Champion a culture of accountability, engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and customer-centric decision-making.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; a Ph.D. is preferred.
Current or prior experience operating at the VP level in engineering within an established technology company.
15+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, or reliability engineering, including 8+ years leading engineering organizations through senior leadership roles.
Proven success building and scaling high-performing engineering teams that deliver shared capabilities used across large, complex product or platform environments.
Experience leading reliability or platform engineering in a global technology company operating at significant scale.
Experience applying AI and automation to software operations, incident response, and engineering productivity.
Experience supporting platforms or services that underpin products used by millions of customers and/or large-scale commercial businesses generating more than $100 million in annual revenue.
Deep expertise in modern cloud-native systems and platform operations, with strong experience in one or more of the following domains: infrastructure platforms, data & AI platforms, security platforms, or developer platforms.
Strong track record of improving reliability, resilience, operational efficiency, and engineering effectiveness through systems thinking, automation, and disciplined execution.
Experience leading or scaling functions such as SRE, observability, incident management, resilience engineering, performance engineering, or large-scale service operations.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across large, matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical and operational topics clearly to executive audiences.
Strong collaboration and leadership presence, with a reputation for building trust, attracting top talent, and developing diverse, high-performing teams.
The pay range for this role is $320,000 to $350,000 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:
The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of thisposting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
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