
Pre-Sales Engineer, Cybersecurity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Florida • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $175,000 - $411,500 per year
About the role
- Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer business drivers, networking environments, and security requirements.
- Design and articulate scalable Security architectures incorporating secure SD‑WAN, SSE, identity‑based access, and firewall technologies.
- Deliver high‑impact product demonstrations, workshops, and proof‑of‑concepts showcasing HPE Networking offerings, including SD‑WAN, ZTNA, SWG, CASB, and DEM use cases.
- Position and integrate solutions across the broader HPE Security and Networking portfolio, including Hybrid Mesh firewalls and data‑center‑to‑cloud security designs.
- Support sales pursuits by responding to RFPs, RFIs, and security questionnaires with clear, technically accurate documentation and diagrams.
- Collaborate closely with account managers, specialist peers, partners, and services teams to drive successful deal outcomes.
- Present confidently to both technical audiences and executive stakeholders, including security leaders and architects.
- Provide field feedback to product management and engineering teams to influence roadmap and solution enhancements.
- Travel across operation to support customer meetings, partner engagements, workshops, and industry events.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in technical presales, sales engineering, or solution architecture roles within, security, networking, or cloud domains.
- Hands‑on experience with SASE, Zero Trust, Hybrid-Mesh Firewalls, and cloud‑delivered security architectures.
- Strong understanding of security technologies such as firewalls, IPsec, SSL‑VPN, IDS/IPS, and traffic inspection.
- Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, BGP, and OSPF.
- Familiarity with identity and access concepts including SSO, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, and role‑based access control.
- Working knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud).
- Comfortable delivering live demos, whiteboarding architectures, and running customer POCs.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value.
- Self‑motivated, collaborative, and comfortable working in a fast‑moving, team‑oriented sales environment.
- Experience with HPE Security technologies (SDWAN, SSE, NAC) as well as exposure to HPE Juniper technologies, particularly SRX firewalls or related platforms.
- Certifications such as CISSP, Security+, and/or relevant cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Benefits
- Health & Wellbeing
- Personal & Professional Development
- Unconditional Inclusion
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SASEZero TrustHybrid-Mesh Firewallscloud-delivered security architecturesfirewallsIPsecSSL-VPNIDS/IPSTCP/IPDNS
Soft Skills
excellent communication skillsself-motivatedcollaborativecomfortable working in a fast-moving environmentability to translate technical conceptspresenting to technical audiencesworking in a team-oriented sales environment
Certifications
CISSPSecurity+AWS certificationAzure certificationGCP certification