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Principal Senior Systems Engineer - HPE Networking (Mid-Telco Accounts)This role has been designated as 'Remote/Teleworker', which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

HPE Networking is seeking a highly accomplished Principal Senior Systems Engineerto support our Mid-Telco Accountsorganization. This is a senior customer-facing technical leadership role responsible for driving technical strategy, solution architecture, and pre-sales execution for telecommunications service providers, regional carriers, broadband providers, utilities, and other network infrastructure customers.

As the trusted technical advisor, you will partner with Account Managers, Product Specialists, Solution Architects, Business Partners, and Engineering teams to develop innovative solutions that solve complex business and technical challenges. You will influence customer network strategy while helping organizations modernize IP, transport, data center, and AI-ready networking environments.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Juniper routing , switching and security platforms (MX, PTX, QFX, EX and SRX)along with extensive experience with JUNOS and JUNOS Evolved (JUNOS EVO). This individual is comfortable engaging everyone from network operators and architects to CTOs and executive leadership, translating complex technologies into business outcomes.

This position requires both exceptional technical depth and executive presence. You will lead architectural discussions, influence strategic technology decisions, guide complex proof-of-concepts, and serve as a technical mentor across the Systems Engineering organization.

What You Will Do

• Serve as the principal technical advisor for assigned Mid-Telco and Service Provider accounts.
• Build trusted relationships with customer executives, CTO organizations, network architects, engineering leaders, and operations teams.
• Lead executive-level technology discussions focused on network modernization, automation, AI-driven operations, cloud connectivity, and next-generation routing architectures.
• Conduct comprehensive discovery sessions to understand customer business priorities, technical requirements, operational challenges, and long-term network strategy.
• Design scalable, resilient, and highly available networking solutions leveraging the HPE Networking portfolio with an emphasis on carrier-class routing, transport, and data center networking.
• Architect and position solutions utilizing Juniper MX, PTX, and QFX, EX , SRXplatforms supporting IP/MPLS core, edge, aggregation, peering, transport, and data center deployments.
• Provide expert guidance on JUNOSand JUNOS EVOarchitectures, software lifecycle management, migration planning, and operational best practices.
• Lead technical presentations, architectural workshops, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and customer design reviews.
• Develop technical proposals, solution architectures, Bills of Materials, implementation strategies, and responses to RFPs and RFIs.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and the Office of the CTO to provide customer feedback that influences future product direction.
• Partner across HPE organizations including AI, Compute, Storage, GreenLake, Security, and Services to deliver comprehensive business solutions.
• Act as a technical leader throughout complex sales engagements, helping drive opportunities from qualification through successful closure.
• Mentor Systems Engineers across the organization by sharing best practices, conducting technical enablement sessions, and serving as a senior escalation resource.
• Stay current on emerging networking technologies, service provider trends, AI networking, automation, and cloud-native architectures.

Required Technical Expertise:

Service Provider Networking

Demonstrated expertise designing and supporting large-scale service provider networks including:

• BGP
• IS-IS
• OSPF
• MPLS
• Segment Routing (SR-MPLS)
• EVPN
• VXLAN
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services
• Traffic Engineering
• Carrier Ethernet
• Multicast
• IPv4/IPv6
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• High Availability and Carrier Resiliency

Juniper Networking

Deep technical knowledge and operational experience with:

• MX Universal Routing Platforms
• PTX Packet Transport Routers
• QFX Data Center Switching
• JUNOS Operating System
• JUNOS Evolved (JUNOS EVO)
• Routing policy design
• Network migration and modernization
• Software lifecycle management
• High-scale routing architectures

Network Automation & Modernization

Experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable:

• Python
• Ansible
• Terraform
• YANG/OpenConfig
• NETCONF
• REST APIs
• Streaming Telemetry
• Network Observability
• Intent-based Networking
• AI-driven Operations (AIOps)

Additional Preferred Skills

• EVPN/VXLAN Data Center Fabrics
• Cloud networking (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Network Security fundamentals
• Routing security
• MACsec
• Automation frameworks

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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:

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Job Level:

TCP_05"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 184,500 - 357,500 in Colorado // 199,000 - 411,500 in New York // 175,000 - 411,500 in Georgia & New Jersey & Texas & Virginia
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%."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is September 28 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

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