Role Description
As a Principal PreSales Systems Engineer for HPE Networking, you will be responsible for managing pre-sales technical/functional support to prospective clients and Global Major customers while ensuring customer satisfaction. The preferred candidate will have career-level experience with networking infrastructure technologies in all arenas.
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Manage account and partner responsibilities for selected (Global Major) accounts in assigned territory.
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Provide the optimum combination of hardware, software, and services to meet complex customer needs.
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Play a role in the development of the bid, proposal, and presentation of the solution to the prospect.
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Provide specific solutions/technology/product/technical and sales support for accounts in assigned territory.
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Deliver technical presentations to customers, partners, and potential prospects.
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Manage channel partners to help drive business and deliver demand generation events.
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Develop account relationships over time to continue to deliver advice to the customer and identify additional opportunities; maintain and manage a sales pipeline and forecasts against regional goals.
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Possess competitive knowledge including solution, technology, and product offerings.
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Provide consultative support to key internal/external stakeholders in assigned territory.
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Use in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations.
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Prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions.
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Create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products/applications/solutions.
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Build a proof of concept based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for client.
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Provide consultation to prospective users and/or product capability assessment and validation.
Qualifications
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10+ years of infrastructure engineering and experience with successful pre-sales support is preferred.
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Oral and written communication, organizational, presentation, prioritization, and interpersonal skills.
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Must be customer-focused and have the ability to design and manage solutions to complex technical issues.
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Ability to interface with senior levels of internal/external organizations is required.
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Extensive Aruba Networking or Juniper Mist Networking knowledge.
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Routing and switching technologies.
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Networking Security.
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NAC experience - Clearpass, ISE, Cloud NAC, Juniper Access Assurance.
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Wireless Design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
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Pre and post wireless site survey knowledge - eg. Ekahau or Hamina.
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CWNA, CWDP, CWSP knowledge level preferred.
Benefits
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Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
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Personal & Professional Development: Programs catered to helping you reach career goals.
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Unconditional Inclusion: Celebrating individual uniqueness and valuing varied backgrounds.