Data Center Networking Architect—WAN & Optical

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; California, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 412,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks a WAN/Routing Engineer to support our office. The Technical Solutions Architect will provide deep technical expertise across WAN routing, network infrastructure, optical transport, data center connectivity, and network automation.

You will lead architectural discussions, design reference architectures, and guide customer design choices to align technical solutions with business goals. The role emphasizes collaboration with Sales, Engineering, and Partner teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in networking architecture or related technical roles.
• Proven ability to engage directly with customer architects, network engineering teams, technical decision-makers, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert for HPE Networking routing and infrastructure solutions.
• Design and validate scalable WAN, enterprise edge, and data center interconnect architectures.
• Provide technical leadership during customer briefings, workshops, proof-of-concepts, and strategic design discussions.
• Develop reference architectures, solution designs, deployment guidance, and networking best practices.
• Partner with account teams to understand customer requirements and align technical solutions with business outcomes.
• Support partner and field enablement through technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and training.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, Professional Services, and Sales to influence product direction and drive customer success.
• Support competitive positioning and technical differentiation of HPE Networking solutions.
• Support large-scale networking opportunities from initial discovery through technical validation and deployment planning.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for both technical and executive audiences.

Skills

WAN Routing

Network Infrastructure

BGP

MPLS

EVPN/VXLAN

Network Automation

Python

REST APIs

NETCONF/YANG

Ansible

Git Workflows

Tools

Python

REST APIs

NETCONF/YANG

Ansible

Git

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks a WAN/Routing Engineer to support our office. The Technical Solutions Architect will provide deep technical expertise across WAN routing, network infrastructure, optical transport, data center connectivity, and network automation.

You will lead architectural discussions, design reference architectures, and guide customer design choices to align technical solutions with business goals. The role emphasizes collaboration with Sales, Engineering, and Partner teams.