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This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week 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: Job Family Definition: Responsible for providing technical support and/or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet a customer’s business needs. Creates and maintains effective customer relationships to secure customer satisfaction. Provides the deepest level of product- and technology-specific expertise available to customers from anyone in the sales organization in deal pursuit situations. Aligned to specific products or product-lines. The Consulting Systems Engineer is also a subject matter expert in their area of specialization (i.e., Mobility, Security, Branch, etc), responsible for consulting customers on end to end technical designs to meet their business need. These jobs focus on selling to customers, typically through work that occurs outside HPE offices.
Job Responsibility
Closely liaise with the account teams in both Enterprise and Service Provider verticals in order to develop and define a set of Data Center solutions applicable to the APJ market
Develop close peer relationship with the Data Center PLM team and be able to articulate key requirements for APJ to both PLM and engineering on a regular or as needed basis
Regularly review accounts across the APJ and identify potential DC opportunities and No Bid situations
Drive customer executive engagement and customer relationship building via leveraging an architecture approach and positioning solutions that offer significant business value
Ability to articulate the business value and benefits to the Customer of the various technology choices to ensure strong linkages between business objectives and proposed solutions
Ability to think ‘outside the box’ and adapt technology to solve customer’s problems
Develop technical architectures for the Customer and the incubation and development of new opportunities based on these architectures
Frequent engagement with the Customer technical leaders to understand their business priorities and influence their Data Center and network architecture decisions to align both with their business goals and with HPE Networking’s account strategy
Collaborate extensively with theatre Technical Solutions Architecture (TSA) DC team to encourage sharing of insights, experiences and documentation on customer success and failures
Undertake demonstrations and Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) of new technologies and solutions to strategic customers with support from other teams within APJ theatre and/or WW TSA teams
Assist account teams in responding to RFP’s and RFI’s, especially those related to new DC technologies and solutions
Interface constructively within the account teams and other teams such as professional services, marketing, partner organisations to deliver relevant solutions to the customer
Requirements
8+ Years’ pre-sales experience in IP networking with a recommended 4 years’ experience in DC/Automation
Significant experience working with large scale Service Provider and/or Enterprise customers as a senior technical advisor or consultant
Demonstratable Service Provider network and/or Enterprise infrastructure knowledge
Experience designing overlay networks utilising protocols like EVPN/VXLAN
Experience migrating legacy customer networks to IP fabrics and/or overlay networks
Deep and demonstrable technical understanding of Server and container virtualization functionality and solutions including VMware VCenter, Docker, Kubernetes (OpenShift) and OpenStack
Deep and demonstrable technical understanding of Cloud Provider solutions (e.g. AWS, AZURE, GCP)
High level of competence in SDN, NFV and related orchestration applications
Demonstratable knowledge of VMware NSX-T
Familiarity with various fabric management solutions, and other automation systems and their application in the customer environment
Working knowledge of technologies such as Netconf, YANG, REST and so forth. High level of competence in more than one of the following languages Go, Python, XML, YAML, Java, C, Rust, Ruby or Perl
Demonstratable understanding of EVPN, VXLAN, BGP
Deep and demonstratable understanding of telemetry including In-band telemetry
Understanding of machine learning concepts
A willingness to learn new solutions and product sets and then be able to incorporate them into HPE Networking’s solutions and educate the team on those solutions