# Principal Presales Systems Engineer

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: All, Texas
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a highly technical, customer-focused Principal Presales Systems Engineer to join our team. As a Principal Presales Systems Engineer, you will play a critical role in driving the success of HPE Networking by enabling the sale and support of advanced networking and security solutions.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead pre-sales technical engagements, including solution design, architecture, and positioning of networking and security solutions

- Partner closely with sales teams, customers, and ecosystem partners to align technical strategies with business outcomes

- Deliver technical presentations, product demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements to validate solutions

- Develop and respond to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs, building compelling and competitive proposals

- Build and maintain strong relationships with customer technical stakeholders and decision-makers

- Provide enablement, training, and technical guidance to partners and customer engineering teams

- Stay current on industry trends, competitive offerings, and emerging technologies to effectively position solutions

**Required Qualifications & Experience**

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in a technical pre-sales role (Sales Engineer / Systems Engineer)

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)

**Juniper & Networking Expertise**

- Strong hands-on experience with Juniper/Aruba networking solutions across routing, switching, and/or security domains

- Deep expertise in enterprise networking, including:

- Wireless and Campus Switching

- SD-WAN technologies (MPLS, traffic engineering concepts)

- Campus networking (EVPN/VXLAN, fabric architectures)

- Network security principles and solutions (NGFW, IPSec, DDoS protection, etc.)

**Solution Design & Customer Engagement**

- Proven experience designing and consulting on network architectures, including bill of materials and implementation strategies

- Experience operating and implementing enterprise-scale campus and branch architectures

- Strong customer-facing experience, including technical presentations, whiteboarding, and executive-level engagement

- Experience supporting pre-sales cycles including solution positioning, proposal development, and competitive differentiation

**Core Skills**

- Strong communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills

- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them in customer environments

- Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders

## Skills

### Required
- Juniper/Aruba networking solutions
- Enterprise networking
- SD-WAN technologies
- Network security principles
- Solution design
- Customer engagement

### Nice to have
- Juniper ecosystem tools
- Cloud technologies
- Automation/scripting
- DevOps/infrastructure-as-code concepts
- Emerging technologies

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