Sales Engineer - HPE Networking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Sales Engineer for Networking in the UK. The role focuses on pre-sales activities, designing networking solutions and delivering demonstrations to public sector, education, healthcare, local government and enterprise customers.

Location options include Manchester, Winnersh, Bristol, and London. You will work with Account Managers to understand requirements and build trusted relationships while developing expertise in Wi‑Fi, switching, security and SD‑WAN.

Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience in networking, technical support, professional services or a customer-facing technical role.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Passion for technology and customer engagement.
• Looking to build a career in pre-sales.
• Excellent communication skills.
• 5+ years' networking industry experience.
• 2+ years' pre-sales experience or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
• Experience running demonstrations, workshops and proof-of-concepts.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking technologies.
• Able to work independently with customers while leveraging wider specialist support where needed.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Managers to understand customer requirements and business challenges.
• Deliver technical presentations, demonstrations and workshops.
• Design networking solutions across the HPE Networking portfolio.
• Support customers through discovery, evaluation and proof-of-concept activities.
• Build trusted relationships with customers and partners.
• Develop expertise across enterprise networking technologies including Wi-Fi, switching, security and SD-WAN.
• Work alongside experienced technical specialists while developing your own pre-sales capability.

Skills

Networking fundamentals

Customer engagement

Pre-sales

Communication skills

Job description

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Who We Are

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 Description

Sales Engineer – HPE Networking

Location: UK Manchester, Winnersh, Bristol, London

Join HPE Networking at an Exciting Time

Following the acquisition of Juniper Networks, HPE Networking is bringing together industry-leading networking, security, AI-driven operations and cloud management technologies to help organisations transform how they connect, secure and manage their networks.

We’re looking for talented Sales Engineers to join our growing Networking team supporting customers across Public Sector, Education, Healthcare, Local Government and Enterprise environments.

Whether you’re already working in pre-sales or looking to transition from networking, professional services, technical support or consulting, this role provides an excellent opportunity to develop your career in a customer-facing technical role.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Account Managers to understand customer requirements and business challenges.
• Deliver technical presentations, demonstrations and workshops.
• Design networking solutions across the HPE Networking portfolio.
• Support customers through discovery, evaluation and proof-of-concept activities.
• Build trusted relationships with customers and partners.
• Develop expertise across enterprise networking technologies including Wi-Fi, switching, security and SD-WAN.
• Work alongside experienced technical specialists while developing your own pre-sales capability.

What We’re Looking For

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• 2+ years' experience in networking, technical support, professional services or a customer-facing technical role.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Passion for technology and customer engagement.
• Looking to build a career in pre-sales.
• Excellent communication skills.

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• 5+ years' networking industry experience.
• 2+ years' pre-sales experience or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
• Experience running demonstrations, workshops and proof-of-concepts.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking technologies.
• Able to work independently with customers while leveraging wider specialist support where needed.

Technical Experience

Experience with two or more of:

• Enterprise Wi-Fi
• Campus & Branch Switching
• Data Centre Networking
• Routing & WAN
• SD-WAN
• Network Security
• Network Access Control
• SSE/SASE technologies

Why HPE Networking?

• Join one of the world’s leading technology organisations.
• Be part of the combined HPE and Juniper Networking business.
• Work on large-scale customer transformation projects.
• Extensive technical and professional development opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid working focused on customer engagement.
• Opportunity to progress into senior pre-sales and specialist technical roles.

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

Let’s Stay Connected

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Job

Sales

Job Level

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

Equal Employment Opportunity

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.