Senior Presales Systems Engineer

Job Description

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Family Definition:
Responsible for providing technical leadership and pre-sales support in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customer business needs. Builds and maintains strong customer relationships that drive trust, technical credibility, and customer satisfaction. Serves as a senior technical advisor in complex deal pursuits, bringing deep product and technology expertise to customer engagements and internal account teams.

Management Level Definition:
Contributions have a sustained impact on the technical success of HPE products, solutions, and services. Applies advanced subject matter expertise to solve complex business and technical challenges and is regarded as a trusted advisor within the sales organization. Provides expertise and partnership across functional and technical teams, participates in cross-functional initiatives, exercises significant independent judgment, and may provide leadership and mentoring to others.

HPE Networking is a leading provider of AI‑driven, next‑generation networking solutions that help organizations modernize infrastructure, improve user experiences, and securely connect people, places, applications, and data. We are seeking a Senior Presales Systems Engineer to join our Cloud Go‑to‑Market organization. This role is ideal for a customer‑facing technical leader who thrives in dynamic environments and can connect business priorities to practical architecture and solution outcomes.

This position will primarily focus on campus and branch networking, including wired and wireless infrastructure, SD‑WAN, security, and network access control solutions. This includes traditional enterprise environments as well as industrial campuses, warehouse environments, manufacturing locations, and distributed branch deployments. The ideal candidate will bring strong depth in campus and branch use cases while also offering working knowledge and credibility across data center and WAN architectures, enabling them to contribute across broader customer discussions and multi‑domain opportunities.

This role will support customers across the full HPE Networking portfolio, including Juniper, Aruba, Mist, Silver Peak, and related networking, security, automation, and AI‑driven operations solutions.

The preferred candidate will be based in a major metropolitan area or technology hub and be comfortable traveling to customer locations primarily throughout the United States, with occasional international travel as needed.

Working closely with Account Managers, partners, overlays, and internal technical teams, this SE will qualify opportunities, shape technical strategy, lead customer‑facing discovery, design differentiated solutions, and drive complex opportunities through to closure. Success in this role requires strong technical depth, consultative selling ability, executive presence, and the ability to build credibility with both technical and business stakeholders.

• Serve as the senior pre‑sales technical advisor for assigned cloud‑scale customers, with primary emphasis on campus, branch, SD‑WAN, security, and access control architectures
• Partner with Account Managers to identify, qualify, and advance opportunities from discovery through…