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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Builds servers, networking and private cloud

Principal Presales - Consulting Systems Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$203k - $420k/yr
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
California, USA
RemotePrimarily work from home; travel as required to meet business and customer demands.
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience in a technical or presales role as a Sales Engineer or Systems Engineer.
  • A bachelor's and/or master's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Extensive experience designing, engineering, or consulting on WAN, data center, security, and cloud technology solutions.
  • Extensive experience implementing and operating large-scale WAN backbone networks.
  • Extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of Juniper products, competitors’ products and solutions, and vertical-market use cases.
  • Established experience and hands-on expertise with networking technologies across routing, switching, and security, from a presales, operational, or engineering perspective.
  • Extensive customer-facing sales experience, including presenting and whiteboarding, and experience engaging executive and C-level stakeholders.
  • Recognized technical capability and the ability to learn quickly and apply skills to new protocols and applications in customer contexts.
  • Deep understanding of routing protocols, including IGPs, EGPs, and Layer 2/3 VPNs.
  • Extensive experience with data center network design, including EVPN/VXLAN, Clos architectures, and underlay fabric.
  • Extensive experience with MPLS and WAN network design, including LDP, RSVP, SR-TE, and SRv6.
  • Experience with network security, including NGFW, UTM, DDoS, IPsec, MACsec, and SIEM.
  • Hands-on experience with Juniper or other vendors’ solutions.
  • Positive attitude, willingness to learn new technologies, and ability to handle competing priorities in a challenging environment.
  • Willingness and ability to travel as required to meet business and customer demands.
Responsibilities
  • Provide presales technical consultation in the design, engineering, sale, and implementation of sophisticated products, applications, and solutions.
  • Partner with sales teams and strategic and industry partners to assess potential product applications and ensure optimum systems solutions for new and existing customers.
  • Respond to customer proposals, including RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs, and create viable proposals that grow Juniper's business.
  • Develop and consult on architecture designs, engineering bills of materials, and implementation specifications for next-generation networks and solutions.
  • Use industry and product knowledge to engage and influence customer technology strategies by showcasing Juniper technologies through technical sales presentations, product demonstrations, proof-of-concept work, and trials.
  • Build, develop, and maintain professional relationships with customer IT decision-makers and the industry partner community.
  • Deliver training and support to industry partners and customer engineers.
  • Continuously learn about industry and competitive solutions, products, and services.
  • Apply new technological capabilities to address customers’ real-world challenges.
Desired Qualifications
  • DevOps automation experience using Python, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, YANG, JSON, and Netconf.
  • Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP, CCIE, or another industry certification.

About the company

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud software to large companies, governments and service providers. Its GreenLake platform lets customers run on-premises hardware as a metered cloud service, and its Cray supercomputers run national lab and AI training workloads. The networking business, built on Aruba and Juniper Networks, supplies campus, data-center and routing equipment. Revenue comes from hardware sales, multiyear support contracts, financing and subscriptions. The company traces its roots to Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939, became a separate public company in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Houston, Texas

Founded

1939

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What believers are saying

  • Growth is strong: revenue hit a record $12.2 billion, up 34%, in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • Time off to recharge: HPE gives four Wellness Fridays off a year plus 60 hours of paid volunteer time.
  • Scale gives range: HPE runs server, storage, networking and supercomputer businesses under one employer.

What critics are saying

  • Cuts continue after Juniper: an October 2025 WARN notice listed 52 HPE layoffs in San Jose, California.
  • Integration pressure: HPE still targets $600 million in yearly Juniper cost savings by fiscal 2028, as of October 2026.
  • Supply limits sales: in September 2026, CEO Antonio Neri said memory supply stays very constrained until 2028.

What makes Hewlett Packard Enterprise unique

  • Networking is now core: Juniper helped make networking a $2.9 billion business in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • AI networking is surging: Networks for AI orders hit a record $700 million in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • Hybrid cloud model: GreenLake bills customers monthly for on-premises servers and storage they use.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Wellness Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

4%

1 year growth

11%

2 year growth

11%
Yahoo Finance
Oct 23rd, 2026
HPE shares rise 4% to $57.46 on AI and lunar computing news, outpacing Dell and Super Micro

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) shares rose about 4% to $57.46, outpacing other AI server stocks. Dell Technologies gained roughly 2% to $462.42, while Super Micro Computer was essentially unchanged at $33.73. The S&P 500 ETF SPY slipped 0.34% to $761.35, while the Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF rose about 2% to $25.39. HPE expanded its AI Factory offerings with NVIDIA and deepened a partnership with Schneider Electric to deploy industrial AI agents at the edge. It also said its Spaceborne Computer-4 will travel to the Moon's south pole on Astrolab's FLIP rover later this year. Investors may be favouring HPE's broader mix of enterprise, edge, and specialised computing over narrower peers.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 22nd, 2026
HPE shares fall 6.14% to $54.60 as it backs Nvidia OpenShell and Vera CPU racks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) plans to support Nvidia OpenShell and introduce Vera CPU rack infrastructure. The move targets businesses that want tighter control over autonomous AI systems, sensitive data, and computing resources. HPE shares traded at $54.60, down 6.14%, at 11:20 EST on Thursday. In its fiscal third quarter, Cloud and AI revenue reached $9.0 billion, up 25.4% from a year earlier. The segment's operating margin rose to 17% from 7%. GuruFocus puts the shares 90.98% above its $28.59 GF Value estimate, suggesting investors still expect strong growth. HPE must now turn its AI offering into revenue and cash flow while defending its margin gains.

Associated Press
Oct 22nd, 2026
Schneider Electric, NVIDIA and HPE launch edge AI agents for process industries

Schneider Electric, NVIDIA and HPE have announced a collaboration to bring Physical AI to process and heavy industries. They unveiled Industrial AI Agents at the Edge in Berlin on October 22, 2026. The system runs on HPE Private Cloud AI, so autonomous agents work inside industrial sites. It targets three barriers to adoption: data sovereignty, cybersecurity, and AI consumption costs. The first three agents cover operational technology monitoring, cybersecurity, and energy optimisation. Customers manage them through Schneider's EcoStruxure Industrial Insights apps. CMPC Chile, a Latin American pulp and paper producer, has used Schneider's monitoring system for three years. It sees potential for AI agents to help its specialists investigate issues faster, while people stay in control of critical decisions.

The Register
Oct 20th, 2026
HPE to run AI on the Moon this year with Spaceborne Computer 4 aboard Astrolab's FLIP rover

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will run AI on the Moon before the end of the year. Its fourth-generation Spaceborne Computer (SBC4) will fly aboard Astrolab's Flex Lunar Innovation Platform (FLIP) rover, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the rover, and Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander will carry it to the Moon's south pole near Mons Mouton. SBC4 will run tuned large language model tests, machine learning on camera and LiDAR data, and supercomputing benchmarks, which could make it the first Top500 submission from a celestial body. The 1TB system uses mostly off-the-shelf parts, including Kioxia SSDs in a software RAID 1 mirror. Processing data locally saves scarce bandwidth back to Earth.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 14th, 2026
HPE shares fall 7.4% as Barclays downgrades and cuts target to $77

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) shares fell about 7.4% to $63.695 at 11:48 ET on October 14, after Barclays downgraded the stock to Equal Weight. The bank cut its price target to $77 from $83 but left its financial forecasts unchanged. The move questions how much investors should pay for HPE's growth story, not its earnings outlook. The share price sits 124.2% above GuruFocus's GF Value estimate of $28.41. Data-center networking revenue rose 112.2% year over year to $382 million, about 3.1% of quarterly revenue of $12.2 billion. The wider Networking segment brought in $2.9 billion at a 22% operating margin, against 17% for Cloud & AI. The next earnings report must show stronger evidence that the premium is justified.