Senior Presales, Systems Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Senior Systems Engineer at HPE providing pre-sales technical consultation in the design and implementation of sophisticated technology solutions. Collaborating with sales teams and influencing customer technology strategies to grow the business.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeHerndon • California, New York, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $166,000 - $343,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudSwitching

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide pre-sales technical consultation in the design, engineering, sale, and implementation of sophisticated products, applications, and solutions.
Working in partnership with sales teams, strategic and industry partners in assessing the potential application of our products, ensuring that optimum systems solutions are provided to new and existing customers.
Proven experience in process, tools, and techniques for responding to a customer’s proposals (RFP, RFQ, RFI) and creating viable proposals that grow Juniper's business in a driven and opportunity-filled sales environment.
Experience and knowledge in developing and consulting on architecture designs, engineering bill of materials, and implementation specifications for next-generation networks and solutions.
Use your industry and product knowledge to engage and influence customer technology strategies through showcasing Juniper technologies during technical sales presentations, product demonstrations, proof of concept, and trial engagements.
Build, develop, and maintain strong professional relationships with customer IT decision-makers and the industry partner community.
Deliver training and support to our industry partners and customer engineers.
Continuously learn and stay ahead of the industry and competitive solutions, products, and services.
Enjoy the personal growth and career opportunity that comes from exposure to the latest technological innovations and apply these capabilities to address the real-world challenges of our customers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a technical/pre-sales role as a Sales or Systems Engineer.
Bachelor's and/or master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, and or related field or equivalent experience.
Extensive experience in designing/engineering/consulting on LAN/WAN, Campus, Data Center, Security, and Cloud technology solutions.
Extensive experience in implementing and operating small-mid-large-scale Campus and branch networks utilizing enterprise Networking and Security solutions.
Extensive experience and depth of knowledge around the Juniper product line, key competitors’ products, solutions, and vertical market use cases.
Long-established experience and hands-on expertise with networking industry technologies across routing, switching, and security technology domains from a pre-sale, operational or engineering point of view
Solid interpersonal, relationship, and communication skills with extensive experience in customer-facing sales activities (presenting, whiteboarding etc.) and Exec/C-level engagements.
Recognized technical capability, ability to learn quickly, and apply skills in new protocols and applications and their context to customers.
Deep understanding of Routing Protocols (IGPs, EGPs, Layer-2/3 VPN’s)
Extensive experience of datacenter network design (EVPN/VXLAN, Clos architectures, underlay fabric)
Extensive experience of MPLS and WAN network design (LDP, RSVP, SR-TE, SRv6 etc.)
Experience of network security (NGFW, UTM, DDoS, IPSec, MACSec, SIEM)
Experience with management solutions such as Paragon, MIST, Apstra or equivalent competitive products is an advantage.
Hands-on experience with either Juniper or other vendors solutions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health & Wellbeing
Personal & Professional Development
Unconditional Inclusion

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Hard Skills & Tools

pre-sales technical consultationarchitecture designengineering bill of materialsLAN/WAN solutionsData Center solutionsCloud technology solutionsnetworking technologiesRouting Protocolsdatacenter network designMPLS and WAN network design

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillsrelationship buildingcommunication skillscustomer-facing sales activitiestechnical capabilityability to learn quicklypresentingwhiteboardingExec/C-level engagementtraining and support

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in engineeringMaster's degree in engineeringBachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information TechnologyMaster's degree in Information Technology