Senior Presales Systems Engineer - HPE Networking

Telecommunications & Hardware
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in systems engineering or technical leadership roles.
  • Strong consultative and customer-facing experience.
  • Extensive background supporting enterprise, healthcare, or federal environments.
  • Proven ability to lead technical engagements and influence customer decisions.
  • Effective communicator of complex technical concepts.
  • Experience conducting technical workshops and enablement sessions.
  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior technical advisor for customer engagements.
  • Architect and deliver secure networking solutions across diverse environments.
  • Lead customer workshops, PoCs, and architecture sessions.
  • Design solutions involving advanced networking and security technologies.
  • Collaborate with sales teams to develop technical strategies.
  • Develop automation workflows using tools like Python and Terraform.
  • Deliver executive-level presentations to varied audiences.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits for you and your family.
  • Investment in personal and professional development programs.
  • Commitment to unconditional inclusion and flexibility in work.
  • Support for individual career goals with targeted programs.
Full Job Description
Senior Presales Systems Engineer - HPE Networking

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

Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior Presales Systems Engineer with deep expertise in networking, security, cloud architecture, and automation to support enterprise and federal customers across complex hybrid environments. This role requires a highly consultative technical leader capable of engaging everyone from engineers to executive stakeholders while driving architecture strategy, customer success, and technical sales execution.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience across multi-vendor networking and security platforms, strong automation and cloud skills, and a demonstrated ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical business outcomes. This role is especially well suited for candidates with backgrounds spanning enterprise networking, Zero Trust architectures, SDN, cloud security, data center modernization, and advanced routing/switching technologies.

Responsibilities
  • Serve as the senior technical advisor for enterprise and federal customer engagements.
  • Architect and deliver secure, scalable networking and security solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
  • Lead customer workshops, Proof of Concepts (PoCs), demonstrations, technical validations, and architecture sessions.
  • Design and support solutions involving:
    • EVPN/VXLAN
    • MPLS
    • BGP / OSPF / IS-IS
    • IPv6
    • SDN and network virtualization
    • Zero Trust security architectures
    • NAC / 802.1X
    • IPSec / SSL VPN
    • Microsegmentation
    • Data center and campus networking
  • Collaborate with sales teams and partners to develop technical strategy for complex opportunities.
  • Develop automation workflows and tooling using technologies such as Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Ansible, Terraform, GitLab, and related DevOps frameworks.
  • Deliver executive-level presentations and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Provide product feedback and field insight to engineering and product management teams.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical enablement initiatives.


Desired Technical Background

Strong experience in several of the following areas:

Networking & Infrastructure
  • Juniper, Cisco, Arista, VMware NSX, Palo Alto Networks
  • Routing & Switching
  • EVPN/VXLAN
  • MPLS
  • SDWAN
  • Overlay networking
  • Data center architectures
  • Hybrid cloud networking


Security
  • Zero Trust architectures
  • NAC / 802.1X
  • AAA / RADIUS
  • IPSec / SSL VPN
  • IDS/IPS
  • Firewalls
  • SIEM/SOAR
  • Segmentation and microsegmentation


Cloud & Automation
  • AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • GitLab
  • Automation and orchestration frameworks


Qualifications
  • 15+ years of experience in systems engineering, network architecture, security engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
  • Strong consultative and customer-facing experience.
  • Experience supporting enterprise, healthcare, federal, or service provider environments.
  • Demonstrated success leading technical engagements and influencing strategic customer decisions.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively.
  • Experience conducting customer workshops, technical roadshows, or enablement sessions.
  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting Department of Defense or federal government customers.
  • Experience with Zero Trust transformation initiatives.
  • Advanced certifications in networking, cloud, or virtualization technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with network automation and AI/ML-assisted operational workflows.
  • Public speaking or presentation experience at industry or customer events.

What Success Looks Like
  • Trusted technical advisor to customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Consistently delivers high-quality customer engagements and technical outcomes.
  • Drives customer confidence through technical depth and clear communication.
  • Helps customers modernize infrastructure securely and efficiently.
  • Contributes positively to team culture, mentoring, and innovation initiatives.


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:
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Job Level:
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"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 166,000 - 343,000 in California
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

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