Remote Presales Network Architect

HPE Aruba Networking; Illinois; On-site; USD 91,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Employee Engagement

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's HPE Networking team seeks a Presales System Engineer to advise customers and partners through the sales cycle, designing and positioning end-to-end network solutions across campus, wireless, routing, SD-WAN, SASE, and cloud-managed environments.

You will lead discovery sessions, translate business needs into technical recommendations, collaborate with account managers and senior engineers, and stay current with industry trends to deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in pre-sales, sales engineering, or a customer-facing technical role with a consultative approach.
• Strong foundation in networking technologies (campus, wireless, routing, WAN), with exposure to SD-WAN, SASE, or Zero Trust.
• Lead discovery conversations that uncover technical requirements and strategic priorities.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account managers to develop account strategy and drive technical wins across the territory.
• Lead discovery sessions to uncover customer business drivers and modernization goals.
• Conduct technical assessments, identify gaps 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 business outcomes and modernization strategies.
• Deliver technical presentations, product demonstrations, and virtual engagements for technical and executive audiences.
• Support proposals, RFP/RFI responses, BOMs, and documentation.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, architects, and specialists on complex opportunities.
• Maintain deep expertise across HPE Networking portfolios (Juniper/Aruba) including wired, wireless, routing, data center, and SASE.
• Stay current on AI-Ops, Zero Trust, NaaS, AI-driven networking, and campus fabric evolution.
• Analyze competitive technologies and articulate differentiation in conversations.
• Expand technical and industry expertise through certifications and professional development.

Skills

Presales

Networking fundamentals

Consultative selling

Discovery sessions

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Aruba ACA / ACP

Juniper JNCIA

Cisco CCNA

Fortinet FCA/FCP

CWNA

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's HPE Networking team seeks a Presales System Engineer to advise customers and partners through the sales cycle, designing and positioning end-to-end network solutions across campus, wireless, routing, SD-WAN, SASE, and cloud-managed environments.

You will lead discovery sessions, translate business needs into technical recommendations, collaborate with account managers and senior engineers, and stay current with industry trends to deliver measurable outcomes.