Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer - Eastern Pennsylvania

Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer - Eastern Pennsylvania

  

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

   

Senior Systems Engineer – Eastern Pennsylvania

HPE Networking is a leader in AI-native, next-generation networking solutions that help organizations modernize infrastructure, simplify operations, and securely connect people, devices, and applications. We are seeking a Systems Engineer (SE) to support our State, Local Government, and K-12 customers throughout the Eastern Pennsylvania territory.

This is a highly customer-facing, pre-sales role where you'll partner with Territory Managers to design innovative networking solutions, build trusted customer relationships, and help drive successful business outcomes. The ideal candidate combines deep networking expertise with strong consultative and solution-selling skills.

What You'll Do

As a Systems Engineer, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the sales cycle by:

• Partnering with Territory Managers to identify, qualify, and close new business opportunities.

• Designing end-to-end networking solutions that address customer business and technical requirements.

• Delivering technical presentations, product demonstrations, workshops, and Proofs of Concept (PoCs).

• Developing technical proposals, solution architectures, and implementation recommendations.

• Positioning HPE Networking solutions against competitive offerings by clearly articulating technical advantages and business value.

• Building and maintaining long-term relationships with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.

• Supporting channel partners and demand-generation activities within the territory.

• Maintaining a strong understanding of emerging networking technologies and competitive market trends.

• Managing a healthy sales pipeline while supporting complex enterprise opportunities from discovery through deployment.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 5 years of infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or pre-sales experience supporting enterprise networking environments.

• Strong customer-facing communication, presentation, and consultative selling skills.

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical requirements into practical, business-focused solutions.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with customers, partners, sales teams, and executive stakeholders.

• Campus and branch networking

• Routing & Switching

• Enterprise Wireless

• Network Security

• Network Access Control (NAC)

• Cloud-managed networking platforms

• Solution architecture and technical design

• Technical demonstrations and customer Proofs of Concept

• Industry certifications such as HPE Aruba, Juniper, Cisco, or equivalent.

• Experience supporting State, Local Government, or Education (SLED) customers.

• Strong understanding of enterprise networking trends and competitive technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience mentoring junior Systems Engineers

Why Join HPE Networking?

At HPE Networking, you'll work with industry-leading AI-driven networking solutions while helping public sector organizations modernize their networks and deliver better outcomes for their communities. You'll join a collaborative, customer-focused team that values innovation, technical excellence, and continuous learning, with opportunities to make a meaningful impact across the Eastern Pennsylvania region.

 

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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Job:

Sales

Job Level:

TCP_04

    

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 146,000 - 343,000 in Pennsylvania
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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