HPE Aruba Networking · 2 months ago
Principal Engineer - Advanced Customer Engineering (ACE)
Washington, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$120K/yr - $275K/yr
10+ years expHewlett Packard Enterprise is a global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations connect and analyze their data. They are seeking a Principal Engineer to work with critical customers, providing senior-level oversight and support in advanced customer engineering. The role involves troubleshooting, customer relationship management, and collaboration with engineering teams to enhance customer experience.
Communication HardwareEnterprise SoftwareMobileWireless
Responsibilities
Working with our Critical Account Program customers acting as the senior technical resource
Working with our premium services customers for onboarding as well as provide ongoing care and feeding them based on the premium services level that they have purchased
Identifying suboptimal designs and/or misconfigurations and consulting on plans to correct
Working with engineering escalations team and customers while remote or onsite to identify and troubleshoot bugs
Build strong customer relationships and become a trusted advisor
Build strong relationships across the wider internal organization to increase your knowledge, get faster outcomes and build trust
You will be expected to be very collaborative with the team and the rest of the team will be expected to do the same. More communication usually provides better outcomes and increases engineering talent’s experience and knowledge levels
Requires some travel that should not exceed 50%. Travel varies based on time of year, software release cycles and new hardware releases
Location is not important as long as you are close to a major airport
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or other Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Typically, 10+ years' experience
A deep understanding of one or more of the following areas of enterprise networking: Modern enterprise network design, implementation and troubleshooting, including DNS, DHCP, spanning tree, network access control technologies, including 802.1X, IGRP routing protocols and remote access technologies including IPSec and/or SSL VPN
WAN/Data Center Design including IGRP and EGRP Routing Protocols, Spine/Leaf topologies and virtualization technologies
802.11 wireless solutions, including design, implementation and troubleshooting in all current industry protocols including 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11a, 802.11n, 802.11ac and 802.11ax
Security solutions, including IPSec, SSL/TLS, Public Key Infrastructure/Certificates, 802.1X, radius and LDAP directories, as well as how they are implemented in networking environments to meet the needs of the modern enterprise
Using, evaluating, and developing appropriate engineering design tools and software packages
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Conducting reviews of customer configurations and quickly identifying issues
Strong history of troubleshooting with customers in your current or past roles
Must have demonstrated the ability to pick up additional skillsets outside of comfort zone
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language
Ability to effectively communicate and build relationships primarily with customer engineers but also across all levels of customer organizations up to the executive level
Must be willing to work as part of larger team as needed
Flexibility, adaptability and a positive attitude are a must
Preferred
Vendor and/or Industry certifications are a plus but not required
Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)
Benefits
Health & Wellbeing
Personal & Professional Development
Unconditional Inclusion
Company
HPE Aruba Networking
HPE Aruba Networking provides access management, network infrastructure and mobility application solutions for mobile enterprise networks. It is a sub-organization of HP.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$96.5MKey Investors
Artis VenturesWK Technology FundTrinity Ventures
2015-03-02Acquired
2007-03-27IPO
2005-10-24Series D· $25M
Leadership Team
David Hughes
SVP, SASE and Security, HPE Networking
Damon Ennis
GM & VP SD-WAN
Recent News
2025-12-09
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