Pre-Sales Engineer, Cybersecurity

About This Role

The Pre-Sales Engineer, Cybersecurity will drive the transformation of secure connectivity from edge to cloud for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, working with account managers, partners, and customers. This role involves designing, positioning, and demonstrating secure networking architectures and integrated HPE Network and Security portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer business drivers, networking environments, and security requirements.
• Design and articulate scalable Security architectures incorporating secure SD WAN, SSE, identity based access, and firewall technologies.
• Deliver high impact product demonstrations, workshops, and proof of concepts showcasing HPE Networking offerings, including SD WAN, ZTNA, SWG, CASB, and DEM use cases.
• Position and integrate solutions across the broader HPE Security and Networking portfolio, including Hybrid Mesh firewalls and data center to cloud security designs.
• Support sales pursuits by responding to RFPs, RFIs, and security questionnaires with clear, technically accurate documentation and diagrams.
• Collaborate closely with account managers, specialist peers, partners, and services teams to drive successful deal outcomes.
• Present confidently to both technical audiences and executive stakeholders, including security leaders and architects.
• Provide field feedback to product management and engineering teams to influence roadmap and solution enhancements.
• Travel across operation to support customer meetings, partner engagements, workshops, and industry events.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technical presales, sales engineering, or solution architecture roles
• Hands on experience with SASE, Zero Trust, Hybrid-Mesh Firewalls, and cloud delivered security architectures
• Strong understanding of security technologies such as firewalls, IPsec, SSL VPN, IDS/IPS, and traffic inspection
• Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, BGP, and OSPF
• Familiarity with identity and access concepts including SSO, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, and role based access control
• Working knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud)
• Comfortable delivering live demos, whiteboarding architectures, and running customer POCs
• Excellent communication skills

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical presales, sales engineering, or solution architecture roles within security, networking, or cloud domains.

Nice to Have

• Experience with HPE Security technologies (SDWAN, SSE, NAC)
• Exposure to HPE Juniper technologies, particularly SRX firewalls or related platforms
• Experience supporting a variety of customers in a presales capacity
• Familiarity with compliance or security frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or Zero Trust maturity models

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits

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