Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
About the Role
As a Technical Marketing Engineer, you'll serve as the subject matter expert for HPE's Campus and Branch Switching solutions. You will develop and deliver technical content, demonstrations, and collateral to support product launches, sales enablement, and customer education for HPE's Self-Driving Networks and AI-Native Networking portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the technical authority for HPE Enterprise Switching products, providing expert guidance to internal teams, partners, and customers.
- Develop technical presentations, demos, webinars, and collateral (docs, blogs, videos, social media) to showcase our switching platforms and solutions.
- Support pre-sales engineering and marketing with deep-dive technical assets, product demonstrations, and solution architecture guidance.
- Identify product gaps and competitive differentiators; communicate customer requirements to product and engineering teams.
- Design and document reference architectures, use cases, and best practices for campus and branch deployments.
- Continuously build subject matter expertise through research, training, and customer engagement.
Must Have Qualifications
- Routing & Switching: Strong knowledge of Layer 2/3 protocols, including VLANs, STP, EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, and OSPF.
- Timing & Switching: Strong knowledge of PTP, AVB, SYNC-E, and broadcast network deployments.
- Security Protocols: Understanding of Network Access Control (NAC), Dot1x, MAC authentication, security, telemetry, and firewall rules/access controls.
- Automation: Working knowledge of network automation principles and scripting languages (Python, YAML, Ansible) for API integration and operational efficiency.
- Experience: Minimum 10+ years in networking, security, telemetry, and automation.
- Technical Marketing: Minimum 5+ years in Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) roles.
- Certifications: Security certification is a plus; campus and branch certifications are a plus.
Additional Requirements
- Hands-on configuration and troubleshooting experience with MP-BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EVPN, Multicast, Spanning-Tree, Layer-2, and ideally MPLS.
- Advanced networking and security knowledge (IPsec, NAT, IDS, IPS, DDoS, NG-Firewall).
- Familiarity with telemetry protocols (IPFIX, gNMI, gRPC) and network automation.
- Experience with campus and branch deployment practices (IDF, MDF, SASE), and technologies (Campus/Branch Fabric, EVPN-VXLAN Fabric v4/v6).
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts to various audiences.
- Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise networks.
- Excellent customer communication, cross-collaboration, and public speaking skills.
- Expert-level programming or scripting, especially Python.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, up to 25%.
Additional Skills: Cross Domain Knowledge, Customer Engagement, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Go-to-Market Expertise, Partner Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Security-First Mindset, Strategic Pricing, Strategy Creation, User Experience (UX), Value Creation, Vendor Management
What We Can Offer You:
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.