[Hiring] Technical Solution Architect - Data Center Networking & WAN routing @Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Role Description

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

HPE Networking simplifies networking through innovative, software-defined products and solutions for cloud, AI, and data center environments. HPE Networking develops industry-leading technologies that are ever more software-defined, helping to answer the most challenging issues in connectivity. Digital transformation is everywhere, with technologies such as Multi-Cloud, Cybersecurity, Automation, IoT, AI, Machine Learning, and 5G driving the next waves of innovation.

Technical solution architects are part of the HPE Networking GTM team and have the primary responsibility to partner with sales specialists, sales engineers, account managers, PLM and engineering to drive technical sales activities, with a particular focus on those opportunities involving new products and emerging technologies.

For this specific role we’re looking for an exceptional technical leader and evangelist to support HPE’s customer engagements around Enterprise solutions, with a special focus on data center networks and WAN routing.

The technical solution architect will build and maintain close relationships with existing and potential customers – with the aim to become a trusted advisor / consultant from the initial engagement to a successful closing of the opportunity. This role requires deep technical expertise, experience, creative problem-solving, and strong customer engagement skills to influence and shape breakthrough deals and innovative use cases.

If you have over-the-top technical capability and curiosity; if you can influence both technical and business partners by translating business goals and challenges into technical solutions while differentiating HPE from competing solutions; if your interpersonal and high-impact presentation skills evoke passion and confidence; if you’re a born problem-solver that loves to get into the details and have a burning desire to answer the hard problems in a constantly evolving, results-oriented industry - HPE Networking is the place for you!

Qualifications

• Proven track record of working in a customer-facing pre-sale’s role selling networking equipment or end-user experience in design / architecture / vendor selection.
• Exceptional hands-on skills and/or the ability to support complex proof of concept tests with potentially new products and emerging technologies.
• Excellent inter-personal skills are critical as you will work in virtual, multi-national teams, with little supervision, and diverse demands from many stakeholders.
• You must be able to have a credible (technical) interaction with Enterprise and Service Provider Engineering teams about the industry, technology, and HPE products and solutions in Data Center and WAN technologies to a very detailed technical Level.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences, both internal and external, and at all levels, from deeply technical to executive level technical decision-makers. English verbal and written/presentation skills are mandatory, other major European language skills are an advantage.
• Comfortable with extensive international travel to visit with customers, partners and account teams.

Requirements

• In depth understanding of customer’s business objectives and application of Enterprise Datacenter/Private Cloud and WAN routing solutions across various customer segments and verticals.
• Proven track record in designing Data Center and WAN architectures including EVPN/VXLAN, CLOS fabrics, and underlay designs.
• Expert level knowledge and deep hands-on experience with routing protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP, ISIS, OSPF, Multicast, Layer-2/3 VPN’s, Carrier Ethernet, MPLS traffic engineering (RSVP, SR-TE, SRv6), SDN overlays (EVPN/VXLAN, MP-BGP), Network Fabrics and DCI solutions.
• Familiarity with major networking silicon, hardware platforms and related software (e.g., Juniper/HPE, Nokia, Arista, Cisco, etc.).
• Outstanding knowledge of network management, service provisioning, automation, network monitoring and telemetry interfaces such as Netconf/REST APIs, YANG, OpenConfig, gRPC and how these apply to modern Data Center and WAN routing architectures is essential. Experience with HPE management solutions such as Apstra, Routing Director or equivalent competitive products is an advantage.
• Experience with programming/scripting (Python, APIs, JSON etc.) to enable solution integration and automation.
• Extensive knowledge of Containers and Container related technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, as well as familiarity with Linux operating systems.

Benefits

• 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.