Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer - Eastern Pennsylvania

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:

Senior Presales Systems Engineer - Eastern Pennsylvania

HPE Networking delivers AI-native networking that helps organizations modernize infrastructure and securely connect people, devices, and applications. We are hiring a customer-facing Systems Engineer to support State, Local Government, and K-12 accounts across Northern New Jersey. You will partner with Territory Managers to design solutions, win deals, and become a trusted technical advisor.

What You’ll Do

• Work with TMs to qualify and close opportunities
• Design end-to-end networking solutions against customer requirements
• Deliver presentations, demos, workshops, and PoCs
• Write technical proposals and architecture recommendations
• Position HPE against competitors on technical and business value
• Build relationships with customers, partners, and internal teams
• Support channel and demand-gen activity in the territory
• Stay current on networking technology and competitive trends
• Support complex deals from discovery through deployment

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Engineering, CS, IT, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years in infrastructure, systems engineering, or pre-sales for enterprise networking
• Strong customer-facing communication, presentation, and consultative selling skills
• Ability to turn technical requirements into practical business solutions
• Comfort working with customers, partners, sales, and executives
• Live in the Northern New Jersey territory and travel onsite to customers (role may be posted as remote)
• Gather customer requirements and tailor solution designs to the account
• Recommend the best delivery approach for each customer, not just the architecture
• Combine technical depth with business acumen to show how HPE delivers measurable outcomes

Core technical areas

• Campus/branch networking, routing & switching, enterprise wireless
• Network security and NAC
• Cloud-managed networking
• Solution architecture, demos, and PoCs
• HPE Aruba, Juniper, Cisco, or equivalent certifications
• SLED experience preferred
• Working knowledge of enterprise networking trends and competitors

Preferred

• Experience mentoring junior SEs

Why HPE Networking

You’ll work on AI-driven networking for public-sector customers, on a team that values technical excellence and customer impact across Northern New Jersey.

Accessibility

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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.

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Job:

Job Level:

- United States of America: Annual Salary USD 146,000 - 343,000 in Pennsylvania

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