Presales Engineer: Enterprise Networking Solutions

Salt; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Presales Systems Engineer to provide technical expertise across the sales cycle, helping customers modernize, secure, and optimize their network infrastructure. You will work with account managers, partners, and engineers to understand requirements and design tailored networking solutions.

The ideal candidate has deep enterprise networking knowledge (campus, wired/wireless, routing, SD-WAN, SASE, Zero Trust) and strong communication skills to present to technical and executive

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in presales engineering or customer-facing technical networking role.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, campus networking, wired/wireless.
• Familiarity with SD-WAN, SASE, Zero Trust; cloud-managed networking.
• Hands-on with network solution design, architecture, assessments, and recommendations.
• Translate requirements into practical, scalable networking solutions; strong presenting skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account managers to develop account strategies and drive technical outcomes.
• Lead customer discovery sessions to understand objectives and modernization goals.
• Perform assessments of current networks to identify gaps and risks.
• Design end-to-end networking solutions across campus, wired/wireless, routing, SD-WAN, and security.
• Translate technical solutions into business value; align with digital transformation.
• Deliver technical presentations, demonstrations, and solution discussions.
• Support technical proposals, RFP/RFI responses, BOMs, and documentation.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, architects, and specialists on complex opportunities.
• Maintain strong knowledge of Aruba and Juniper; stay updated on trends (AI, AIOps, NaaS).
• Evaluate competitors and communicate differentiators.

Skills

Enterprise networking

SD-WAN

SASE

Zero Trust

Cloud networking

Aruba

Juniper

Cisco

Fortinet

Solution design

Technical demonstrations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Aruba

Juniper

Cisco

Fortinet

Job description

Salt is seeking a Presales Systems Engineer to provide technical expertise across the sales cycle, helping customers modernize, secure, and optimize their network infrastructure. You will work with account managers, partners, and engineers to understand requirements and design tailored networking solutions.

The ideal candidate has deep enterprise networking knowledge (campus, wired/wireless, routing, SD-WAN, SASE, Zero Trust) and strong communication skills to present to technical and executive