Senior Presales Systems Engineer

This role has been designated as 'Remote/Teleworker', which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

Senior Presales Systems Engineer

Cloud Go-to-Market | Campus, Branch, Security, and SD-WAN Focus

Job Family Definition

Responsible for providing technical leadership and pre-sales support in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customer business needs. Builds and maintains strong customer relationships that drive trust, technical credibility, and customer satisfaction. Serves as a senior technical advisor in complex deal pursuits, bringing deep product and technology expertise to customer engagements and internal account teams.

The Senior Presales Systems Engineer is a subject matter expert in their area of specialization and is responsible for consulting with customers on end-to-end technical designs that align business goals to practical, scalable architectures. This role is highly customer-facing and is focused on selling activities that primarily occur outside HPE offices.

Management Level Definition

Contributions have a sustained impact on the technical success of HPE products, solutions, and services. Applies advanced subject matter expertise to solve complex business and technical challenges and is regarded as a trusted advisor within the sales organization. Provides expertise and partnership across functional and technical teams, participates in cross-functional initiatives, exercises significant independent judgment, and may provide leadership and mentoring to others.

Job Description

HPE Networking is a leading provider of AI-driven, next-generation networking solutions that help organizations modernize infrastructure, improve user experiences, and securely connect people, places, applications, and data.

We are seeking a Senior Presales Systems Engineer to join our Cloud Go-to-Market organization. This role is ideal for a customer-facing technical leader who thrives in dynamic environments and can connect business priorities to practical architecture and solution outcomes.

This position will primarily focus on campus and branch networking, including wired and wireless infrastructure, SD-WAN, security, and network access control solutions. This includes traditional enterprise environments as well as industrial campuses, warehouse environments, manufacturing locations, and distributed branch deployments. The ideal candidate will bring strong depth in campus and branch use cases while also offering working knowledge and credibility across data center and WAN architectures, enabling them to contribute across broader customer discussions and multi-domain opportunities.

This role will support customers across the full HPE Networking portfolio, including Juniper, Aruba, Mist, Silver Peak, and related networking, security, automation, and AI-driven operations solutions.

The preferred candidate will be based in a major metropolitan area or technology hub and be comfortable traveling to customer locations primarily throughout the United States, with occasional international travel as needed.

Working closely with Account Managers, partners, overlays, and internal technical teams, this SE will qualify opportunities, shape technical strategy, lead customer-facing discovery, design differentiated solutions, and drive complex opportunities through to closure. Success in this role requires strong technical depth, consultative selling ability, executive presence, and the ability to build credibility with both technical and business stakeholders.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as the senior pre-sales technical advisor for assigned cloud-scale customers, with primary emphasis on campus, branch, SD-WAN, security, and access control architectures
• Partner with Account Managers to identify, qualify, and advance opportunities from discovery through close
• Lead customer discovery and translate business, operational, and technical requirements into solution architectures and roadmaps
• Design and present solutions spanning wired and wireless campus networking, branch networking, SD-WAN, security, NAC, automation, and cloud-managed operations
• Support customer conversations involving traditional enterprise environments as well as industrial, warehouse, manufacturing, and distributed site requirements
• Contribute meaningfully to broader discussions involving data center and WAN architectures, and coordinate with domain specialists where appropriate
• Represent and position the full HPE Networking portfolio, including Juniper, Aruba, Mist, Silver Peak, and related networking solutions
• Build and deliver technical proposals, presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements
• Articulate HPE Networking differentiation and position solutions effectively against competitive alternatives
• Engage with internal engineering, product management, services, and partner teams to remove blockers and align solutions to customer outcomes
• Maintain strong awareness of market trends, competitive positioning, and emerging technologies relevant to cloud-driven customer environments
• Develop trusted relationships with customer engineers, architects, operations leaders, and decision-makers
• Support channel and partner engagement where applicable to expand reach and influence within accounts
• Travel regularly to customer sites, internal meetings, and strategic events

The ideal candidate will have:

• A bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• Significant pre-sales systems engineering, solution consulting, or related customer-facing experience in enterprise or cloud-focused environments
• Deep experience in campus and branch networking, including wired, wireless, SD-WAN, security, and network access control
• Experience with network access security solutions such as HPE Aruba ClearPass, Juniper Access Assurance, Cisco ISE, or similar platforms
• Solid working knowledge of data center and WAN technologies; direct hands-on experience in either or both is strongly preferred
• Experience supporting complex customer environments and translating technical capabilities into business value
• Strong consultative selling skills and the ability to influence both technical and business audiences
• Experience leading technical sales cycles, including discovery, technical validation, solution positioning, and proof-of-concept execution
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage from engineer to executive level
• A track record of building trusted customer relationships and partnering effectively with sales, partners, and internal stakeholders
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous, and highly competitive markets
• Willingness and ability to travel to customer locations primarily throughout the United States, with occasional international travel

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cloud, large enterprise, or distributed multi-site customer environments
• Experience with campus switching, wireless, branch networking, SD-WAN, SASE, NAC, security, data center networking, and WAN/routing
• Familiarity with modern networking operations, AI-driven management, and automation platforms
• Experience representing or supporting broad infrastructure portfolios across multiple networking domains
• Relevant industry certifications such as Aruba, Juniper, Cisco, or equivalent

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a senior SE who combines:

• Strong technical depth in campus and branch networking
• Credibility in adjacent domains such as data center and WAN
• Sales acumen and consultative skill to shape and win opportunities
• Relationship strength to build trust across customers, partners, and internal teams
• The ability to represent the full HPE Networking portfolio with confidence and clarity

The strongest candidates will be those who can lead with credibility, think strategically, communicate clearly, and help customers connect immediate technical needs to longer-term architecture decisions.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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Job:
Sales
Job Level:
TCP_04

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
- United States of America: Annual Salary USD 153,500 - 298,500 in Colorado // 166,000 - 343,000 in California & New York // 146,000 - 343,000 in Texas
This range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 75%/25%."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is April 13 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.