Principal Senior Systems Engineer - HPE Networking (Mid-Telco Accounts)

HPE Networking is seeking a highly accomplished Principal Senior Systems Engineer to support our Mid-Telco Accounts organization. This is a senior customer-facing technical leadership role responsible for driving technical strategy, solution architecture, and pre-sales execution for telecommunications service providers, regional carriers, broadband providers, utilities, and other network infrastructure customers.

As the trusted technical advisor, you will partner with Account Managers, Product Specialists, Solution Architects, Business Partners, and Engineering teams to develop innovative solutions that solve complex business and technical challenges. You will influence customer network strategy while helping organizations modernize IP, transport, data center, and AI-ready networking environments.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Juniper routing , switching and security platforms (MX, PTX, QFX, EX and SRX) along with extensive experience with JUNOS and JUNOS Evolved (JUNOS EVO). This individual is comfortable engaging everyone from network operators and architects to CTOs and executive leadership, translating complex technologies into business outcomes.

This position requires both exceptional technical depth and executive presence. You will lead architectural discussions, influence strategic technology decisions, guide complex proof-of-concepts, and serve as a technical mentor across the Systems Engineering organization.

What You Will Do

• Serve as the principal technical advisor for assigned Mid-Telco and Service Provider accounts.
• Build trusted relationships with customer executives, CTO organizations, network architects, engineering leaders, and operations teams.
• Lead executive-level technology discussions focused on network modernization, automation, AI-driven operations, cloud connectivity, and next-generation routing architectures.
• Conduct comprehensive discovery sessions to understand customer business priorities, technical requirements, operational challenges, and long-term network strategy.
• Design scalable, resilient, and highly available networking solutions leveraging the HPE Networking portfolio with an emphasis on carrier-class routing, transport, and data center networking.
• Architect and position solutions utilizing Juniper MX, PTX, and QFX, EX , SRX platforms supporting IP/MPLS core, edge, aggregation, peering, transport, and data center deployments.
• Provide expert guidance on JUNOS and JUNOS EVO architectures, software lifecycle management, migration planning, and operational best practices.
• Lead technical presentations, architectural workshops, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and customer design reviews.
• Develop technical proposals, solution architectures, Bills of Materials, implementation strategies, and responses to RFPs and RFIs.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and the Office of the CTO to provide customer feedback that influences future product direction.
• Partner across HPE organizations including AI, Compute, Storage, GreenLake, Security, and Services to deliver comprehensive business solutions.
• Act as a technical leader throughout complex sales engagements, helping drive opportunities from qualification through successful closure.
• Mentor Systems Engineers across the organization by sharing best practices, conducting technical enablement sessions, and serving as a senior escalation resource.
• Stay current on emerging networking technologies, service provider trends, AI networking, automation, and cloud-native architectures.

Demonstrated expertise designing and supporting large-scale service provider networks including:

• BGP
• IS-IS
• OSPF
• MPLS
• Segment Routing (SR-MPLS)
• EVPN
• VXLAN
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services
• Traffic Engineering
• Carrier Ethernet
• Multicast
• IPv4/IPv6
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• High Availability and Carrier Resiliency

Juniper Networking

Deep technical knowledge and operational experience with:

• MX Universal Routing Platforms
• PTX Packet Transport Routers
• QFX Data Center Switching
• JUNOS Operating System
• JUNOS Evolved (JUNOS EVO)
• Routing policy design
• Network migration and modernization
• Software lifecycle management
• High-scale routing architectures

Network Automation & Modernization

Experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable:

• Python
• Ansible
• Terraform
• YANG/OpenConfig
• NETCONF
• REST APIs
• Streaming Telemetry
• Network Observability
• Intent-based Networking
• AI-driven Operations (AIOps)

Additional Preferred Skills

• EVPN/VXLAN Data Center Fabrics
• Cloud networking (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Network Security fundamentals
• Routing security
• MACsec
• Automation frameworks

United States of America: Annual Salary USD 184,500 - 357,500 in Colorado // 199,000 - 411,500 in New York // 175,000 - 411,500 in Georgia & New Jersey & Texas & Virginia This range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 75%/25%."

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