Hybrid Presales Consultant – Data Center Technologies

at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Job title: Presales Consultant – Data Center Technologies
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, Perl, Python, Ruby, Rust, VMware, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Singapore

About the role

• Consulting Systems Engineer responsible for providing technical leadership in data center solutions. Creating and maintaining customer relationships while aligning technology solutions with business needs.

Responsibilities

• 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
• The Consulting Systems Engineer is also a subject matter expert in their area of specialization (i.e., Mobility, Security, Branch, etc)
• Develop close peer relationship with the Data Center PLM team and articulate key requirements for APJ to both PLM and engineering
• Regularly review accounts across the APJ and identify potential DC opportunities and No Bid situations
• Drive customer executive engagement and relationship building
• Develop technical architectures for the Customer
• Frequent engagement with the Customer technical leaders to understand their business priorities and influence their Data Center and network architecture decisions to align with business goals
• Collaborate extensively with theatre Technical Solutions Architecture (TSA) DC team to encourage sharing of insights, experiences and documentation on customer success and failures
• Assist account teams in responding to RFP’s and RFI’s, especially those related to new DC technologies and solutions

Requirements

• 8+ Years’ pre-sales experience in IP networking
• 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
• Engineering Degree or equivalent desirable
• Fluent in English and Mandarin.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing
• Personal & Professional Development
• Unconditional Inclusion