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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Builds servers, networking and private cloud

Federal CT Capture Presales

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$178.5k - $420k/yr
Expert
Bachelor's
Washington, DC, USA
RemoteQualified candidates may be considered from other locations within the United States; selected candidate must be a U.S. citizen.
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering
No H1B Sponsorship
US Citizenship Required

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 10 years of industry knowledge within enterprise technology; knowledge of HPE products is a plus.
  • At least 5 years of presales solution architect experience.
  • At least 5 years supporting the Federal space.
  • Ability to communicate and present to senior leadership.
  • Experience creating requests for proposal responses and other customer-facing documents.
  • Industry-standard relevant technology certifications or equivalent experience are expected.
  • Enterprise architecture frameworks and project management methodologies and certifications are helpful but not required.
  • An advanced degree in technology or a related field is preferred, or equivalent technical qualifications.
  • Ability to obtain a government-issued security clearance; Secret or Top Secret clearance at hire is preferred.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • Demonstrates mastery in leading solution configurations, overall architecture design, and creating, managing, and positioning demonstrations and proofs of concept to meet customer requirements.
  • Demonstrates mastery of the company product, software, service and solution-domain portfolio, adjacent solution domains, and adapting workload solutions for strategic customer and industry solutions.
  • Demonstrates mastery of the as-a-service business model, its business value and ecosystem, and how it advances strategic goals within one or more domains.
  • Ability to collaborate across functions and the company to generate revenue through subscription consumption and other as-a-service models.
  • Mastery of executive-level written, verbal and nonverbal communication, active listening and storytelling, including the ability to communicate in English and applicable local languages as needed.
  • Demonstrates discussion and persuasion skills to support the company point of view while respectfully questioning and challenging proposed solutions.
  • Demonstrates financial and business acumen in sales cycles, funnel management, reporting, influencing, business strategy, executive key performance indicators, total cost of ownership and return on investment concepts and calculations, financial models, and how customers generate revenue.
  • Demonstrates consultative and value-selling skills, advisory influence and executive presence, including presenting, whiteboarding, storytelling, objection handling and closing.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of company business, technical tools, and standard customer relationship management systems and tools.
  • Has resource-management skills, including knowing how and when to engage subject-matter experts and specialists.
  • Has hands-on experience with multiple products, solutions, tools or services aligned to the job responsibilities.
  • Can design and develop demonstration or walkthrough playbooks for products, solutions, tools or services.
  • Can deliver live demonstrations or walkthroughs of products, solutions, tools or services to customers, partners and other stakeholders.
  • Demonstrates project and time-management skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, and appropriate due diligence.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of partner offerings and how and when to leverage them for deals within a specialization.
  • Demonstrates understanding of the company’s preferred go-to-market strategy, global context, partner coverage options, and partner offerings and how and when to leverage them for deals.
  • Demonstrates strategic and account-planning skills and expertise using business and technical tools and standard customer relationship management systems.
Responsibilities
  • Architects solutions to achieve customer business outcomes within a technical domain or across the company portfolio, combining hardware, software, services, as-a-service offerings and necessary third-party components.
  • Supports pursuit of new Federal business within the Enterprise Technology Portfolio, including data center, cloud, artificial intelligence and edge solutions.
  • Develops and articulates compelling, accurate and relevant proposals, ensuring customer business and technical requirements are met.
  • Provides technical expertise to sales teams and customers through sales presentations, product and solution demonstrations, and other activities aimed at gaining customer mindshare.
  • Demonstrates mastery of solution domains and the customer’s technical and business environment.
  • Orchestrates complex proposal design and communicates tangible business value to customers.
  • Manages customer and company stakeholder expectations to mitigate company risk.
  • Critically reviews proposals and applies market intelligence and thought leadership to translate functional needs into technical views and enhance workload-optimized solutions.
  • Provides input to global business units on end-customer information technology trends, requirements, gaps and unmet needs.
  • Leads teams in developing and presenting high-level, distinctive, outcome-based solutions to customer business challenges, translating business needs into aligned functional solution designs.
  • Communicates company solution value propositions in the customer’s language and demonstrates alignment with customer needs and business outcomes.
  • Develops adjacent technology knowledge and in-depth knowledge of current and emerging technologies and trends.
  • Contributes to the industry through conference content, presentations, demonstrations, booth support, social media and business events.
  • Monitors the competitive landscape, including emerging competitors and startups.
  • Drives account business planning using industry trends and knowledge of the customer’s technical environment.
  • Facilitates and leads deep-dive discussions with clients and account teams to build relationships, understand business needs, evaluate customer ecosystems, and advocate and present transformation strategies.
  • Identifies acceptable technical trade-offs and risks and suggests remediation.
  • Drives collaboration among internal account teams, sets direction, provides guidance, and engages portfolio partners to build solution strategies aligned with customer technical and business challenges.
  • Transfers knowledge to external partners to support effective customer solutions.
  • Builds the pipeline by identifying account opportunities, including enhancements, unmet or unrecognized needs, upselling and cross-selling.
  • Monitors the account pipeline and nurtures active deals from opportunity through close.
  • Uses pipeline insights to prioritize activities and invest time and resources in promising deals.
  • Participates in sales forecast meetings and provides feedback to accelerate the sales lifecycle.
  • Documents activities and tasks throughout the sales cycle using specified tools and resources, and shares best practices with peers and partners.
  • Builds consultative presence and advisory influence with vice presidents, C-suite executives, line-of-business management and customer thought leaders.
  • Anticipates customer needs and engages partners and resources to design innovative solutions and generate demand.
  • Shares knowledge with peers and helps develop expertise within the presales community.
Desired Qualifications
  • Knowledge of HPE products.
  • Secret or Top Secret clearance at the time of hire.
  • Enterprise architecture frameworks and project management methodologies and certifications.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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