Senior Sales Engineer - HPE Networking

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office., We’re looking for experienced Senior Sales Engineers to work with some of the UK’s largest Finance, Retail, Public Sector and Enterprise customers, helping organisations solve complex networking and security challenges whilst driving business growth.

This is a highly customer-facing role where you’ll act as a trusted technical advisor, influencing technology strategies, leading technical evaluations and supporting major business opportunities.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Account Managers on strategic customer opportunities.
• Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders.
• Lead technical discovery workshops and solution design activities.
• Deliver compelling product demonstrations and executive presentations.
• Run proof-of-concept engagements and technical evaluations.
• Support large and complex sales opportunities.
• Influence customer networking and security strategies.
• Mentor and support less experienced engineers where appropriate.
• Act as a subject matter expert across key networking technologies.

• 5+ years’ experience in networking, pre-sales, consulting or customer-facing technical roles.
• Strong enterprise networking background.
• Proven experience engaging directly with customers.
• Ability to understand business and technical challenges and translate them into solutions.
• Strong commercial awareness and consultative selling skills.
• Experience leading proof-of-concepts and technical evaluations.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.

Technical Experience

Strong experience across several of the following:

• Enterprise Wi-Fi
• Campus & Branch Networking
• Switching
• Routing
• SD-WAN
• Network Security
• Firewalls & VPNs
• Network Access Control
• SSE/SASE
• Data Centre Networking

• Lead Network Engineers
• Technical Architects
• Professional Services Consultants
• Technical Team Leaders

who have strong customer-facing experience and are looking to move into a more commercially focused role.

Why Join Us?

• Join HPE Networking during a transformational period of growth.
• Work with some of the UK’s largest and most strategic customers.
• Access world-class training and development opportunities.
• Influence major technology decisions.
• Work with innovative Aruba and Juniper networking technologies.
• Flexible hybrid working focused on customers, not office attendance.

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., The integration of Juniper Networks into HPE has created one of the industry’s most comprehensive networking portfolios, combining networking, security, AI-driven operations and cloud-managed solutions.