Technical Presales Engineer - Networking
IT, Sales & Business Development
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
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:
Management Level Definition:
HPE has an exciting opening for a team-oriented, highly effective, and motivated individual in HPE’s Global Proposal Specialist Engineering Team (PSE). PSE Team assists with understanding customers' requirements, bill of materials, responding to technical compliance questionnaires for RFx with respect to HPEN product portfolio.
PSE team is a part of the Sales Operations- Global Bid and Proposal Management Team.
What You'll Do
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate meetings with AM’s/SEs from PSE team standpoint to understand scope and determine technical requirements.
- Understand the RFP client scope, propose HPEN products/solutions, prepare bill of materials(if required) & work as an individual contributor for customer engagements.
- Provide technical responses in a professional manner and to agreed timeframes.
- Technical SE and trusted advisor for Networking solutions across Data Centre, Campus including Wi-Fi, SDWAN, Cloud, MIST and Aruba Products etc.
- Coordinate inter department teams like PLM, SME, Bid and other stakeholders to understand scope and technical requirements.
- Assure process for data archival of completed RFP’s and availability for future references.
- Communicate effectively across cross functional teams and work with geographically distributed teams building productive relationships internally and externally, fostering teamwork by keeping colleagues updated on activities
- Participate in process improvement and internal quality review.
Skills
A successful candidate will be:
- Analytical, energetic, learner and able to resolve complex problems
- Committed to develop technical and professional skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, and presentation skills
- Ability to work independently and remotely as well as in a team to accomplish goals
What you need to bring:
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of industry experience (preferably in networking/telco industry) with at least 2+ years of Pre-sales experience
- Bachelors or Masters in EC/CS or equivalent
- Networking Protocols: TCP/UDP/IPv4/IPv6, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, ISIS,ARP, VLANS, BNG,PPP/PPPoE, DHCP, L2TP, ACI/ARI, Radius, Diameter, CoA, Traffic Engineering and other Tunneling Technologies, EVPN, VXLAN, BGP,SASE etc
- Knowledge of networking protocols and applications such as Security, Data Centre, Wi-Fi, SDWAN, SDN and Cloud technologies.
- Knowledge in the areas of: networking, cloud orchestration, security, automation, enterprise and campus design/technologies
- Domain Knowledge: Service Provider, Enterprise, Data Center Technologies & Broadband Services (basic understanding will be good)
Preferred Qualifications (not Mandatory):
- Knowledge of Juniper/Aruba products and solutions is a plus
- Basic experience of working on a proposal automation software is a plus
Preferred Certifications
- Any Product certifications(e.g JNCIS/JNCIP/JNCIE) or equivalent(CCNP/CCIE) is a plus.
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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