Remote Presales Engineer - Networking & SD-WAN

PreSales Collective; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 121,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks a SLED Presales Engineer to support networking modernization and security for state, local, and education customers. You will advise across wired/wireless networks, SD-WAN, SASE, and cloud-managed environments, while collaborating with account teams to achieve technical wins.

The role emphasizes trusted-advisor engagement, discovery facilitation, and hands-on design across campus and branch environments, including security domains.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in pre-sales, sales engineering, or a customer-facing technical role with a consultative approach.
• Experience with campus, wireless, routing, WAN networking; exposure to SD-WAN, SASE, or Zero Trust architecture.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value for engineers and executives.
• Hands-on experience with solution design and architecture mapped to customer environments.
• Collaborative work across account managers, architects, and specialists to deliver solutions.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume inside sales environment with attention to detail.
• Strong curiosity and ongoing self-driven learning of industry trends and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account managers to develop account strategy, qualify opportunities, and drive technical wins.
• Lead discovery sessions to uncover customer business drivers, technical requirements, and modernization goals.
• Conduct technical assessments to evaluate current environments, identify gaps and risks, and define solution approaches.
• Design and architect end-to-end HPE Networking solutions across campus, branch, wireless, routing, SD-WAN, and security domains.
• Recommend solutions aligned to customer business outcomes and modernization initiatives.
• Deliver customized technical presentations, product demonstrations, and virtual engagements for technical and executive audiences.
• Support the development of proposals, RFP/RFI responses, bills of materials, and solution documentation.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, architects, and specialists on complex or multi-domain opportunities.
• Maintain deep expertise across HPE Networking portfolios (Juniper/Aruba—wired, wireless, routing, data center, SASE).
• Stay current on AI-Ops, Zero Trust, NaaS, AI-driven networking, and campus fabric evolution.
• Analyze competitive technologies and articulate HPE differentiation in customer conversations.

Skills

Networking technologies

SD-WAN

SASE

Zero Trust

Education

Bachelor's degree

Aruba ACA/ACP

Juniper JNCIA

Cisco CCNA

Fortinet FCA/FCP

CWNA

Tools

Aruba ACA/ACP

Juniper JNCIA

Cisco CCNA

Fortinet FCA/FCP

CWNA

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks a SLED Presales Engineer to support networking modernization and security for state, local, and education customers. You will advise across wired/wireless networks, SD-WAN, SASE, and cloud-managed environments, while collaborating with account teams to achieve technical wins.

The role emphasizes trusted-advisor engagement, discovery facilitation, and hands-on design across campus and branch environments, including security domains.