Senior Presales, System Engineer for Vodafone

Senior Presales, System Engineer for Vodafone

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

Senior Presales, System Engineer for Vodafone

About the Role

Are you an experienced Sales Engineer looking to take the next step in your career? At HPE, we’re offering an exciting opportunity to join our high-performing team as a Presales Consulting Systems Engineer, supporting one of our key strategic customers—Vodafone UK & Ireland.

In this role, you’ll be a critical part of the account team, combining your deep technical expertise with strong consulting skills to help shape innovative network solutions. You’ll play a pivotal role in driving new business opportunities, influencing technical decisions, and delivering real value to one of the world’s leading telecom providers.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a trusted technical advisor, you will:

• Act as the lead presales technical expert for the Vodafone account

• Identify, develop, and drive new business opportunities

• Deliver technical presentations, workshops, and solution demonstrations

• Lead Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and customer lab engagements

• Support RFx responses, bids, and solution proposals

• Build strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and decision-makers

• Provide expertise across evolving network domains, including:

  • Fixed broadband access

  • End-to-end network automation

  • Network disaggregation and virtualisation

  • Network security infrastructure

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking a motivated and customer-focused individual with a strong mix of technical depth and consulting capability.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience in presales, sales engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role

• Strong expertise in advanced networking technologies, including:

  • MPLS L3VPN, EVPN, Segment Routing

  • Advanced BGP

  • Transport SDN (PCE)

  • Network automation, telemetry, CG-NAT

• Experience with fixed broadband networks, particularly:

  • BNG and CUPS architectures

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage large audiences

• Strong collaboration skills in a competitive sales environment

• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience designing or supporting large-scale backbone or data centre networks

• Knowledge of network security for mobile infrastructure (e.g., SEG, Gi Firewall, DDoS mitigation)

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, and SDN/NFV architectures

• Understanding of 5G, ORAN, and Packet Core architecture

• Experience working with Tier-1 Service Providers

• Knowledge of HPE Juniper solutions and competitor landscape

• Relevant certifications (e.g., JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE, CISSP, CCIE)

Why Join HPE?

• Work on strategic, high-impact projects with a global telecom leader

• Access excellent career development and progression opportunities

• Be part of a collaborative, innovative, and forward-thinking team

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package

Additional Information

• Willingness to travel across Europe and occasionally the Americas

• HPE is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}

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.

Job:

Sales

Job Level:

TCP_04

    

    

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