HPE Aruba Networking · 3 days ago
Sr SEM - (Cloud Majors SEM)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$221K/yr - $456K/yr
15+ years expHewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. The Sr Principal Presales Systems Engineer plays a key role in enabling HPE to sell and support sophisticated networking and security solutions, requiring strong technical capability and the ability to influence stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
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 of process, tools, and techniques for responding to a customer’s proposals (RFP, RFQ, RFI) and create 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 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 career opportunity that comes from exposure to the latest technological innovations and apply these capabilities to address the real-world challenges of our customers
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 15 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
Preferred
Experience of emerging technology areas. This includes Virtualization, VMWare, OpenStack, VNF, and Container solutions
DevOps experience in automation using Python, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, YANG, JSON, Netconf and Ansible
Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS, GCP and Azure
JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP, CCIE, etc. or other industry certification is desired
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
H1B Sponsorship
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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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