Principal Senior Systems Engineer – HPE Networking (Mid-Telco Accounts)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • New York, NY

3d • $175,000 - $411,500 • Remote

About The Position

HPE Networking is seeking a highly accomplished Principal Senior Systems Engineer to support our Mid-Telco Accounts organization. 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.

Requirements

• 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)

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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 , SRX platforms supporting IP/MPLS core, edge, aggregation, peering, transport, and data center deployments.
• Provide expert guidance on JUNOS and JUNOS EVO architectures, 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed