• Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute technical sales strategies for assigned customers. • Deliver compelling technical presentations, demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts (POCs). • Design and architect end-to-end networking solutions across campus, data center, and WAN environments. • Provide presales technical leadership throughout the sales cycle, including discovery, solution validation, and RFP responses. • Act as a subject matter expert across routing, switching, wireless, security, and automation technologies.

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Role Description As a Principal Systems Engineer Specialist, you will serve as the premier technical authority on SASE, SSE, and Zero Trust architectures within the federal sales organization. You will operate as a specialized technical resource, collaborating with core account managers and systems engineers to position, architect, and validate advanced security solutions. By leveraging your deep technical expertise, understanding of the federal threat landscape, and consultative skills, you will build trusted relationships with agency CISOs, enterprise architects, and security leadership. Your objective is to guide customers through the complexities of modernization, ensuring that HPE solutions satisfy rigorous federal security compliance and achieve successful mission deployment. What You Will Do - Lead Specialized Technical Strategy: - Serve as the principal technical overlay authority for the HPE cybersecurity and SASE portfolio, collaborating with core DoD and Federal sales teams to drive end-to-end solution strategy. - Architect Zero Trust Architectures: - Design, validate, and defend large-scale SASE and SSE solutions—including ZTNA, SWG, CASB, and FWaaS—ensuring full alignment with NIST SP 800-207, EO 14028, and OMB M-22-09 directives. - Navigate Federal Compliance & ATOs: - Assist customers in navigating the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and achieving Authority to Operate (ATO). Secure architectures against STIG requirements and design solutions tailored for DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) environments. - Conduct High-Level Technical Discovery: - Lead multi-domain discovery sessions and architectural workshops to solve complex federal networking and security challenges, bridging the gap between agency requirements and technical execution. - Oversee Technical Validations: - Design and execute advanced product demonstrations and proof-of-concepts, translating strict compliance and technical mandates into defensible, outcome-driven solutions. - Support Complex Pursuits: - Provide technical leadership on major federal programs and procurement actions, authoring and reviewing high-impact RFI and RFP responses to ensure architectural integrity and technical differentiation. - Integrate Advanced Telemetry: - Guide customers through security visibility and observability integrations, ensuring seamless telemetry pipelines with existing enterprise SIEM, SOAR, and XDR platforms. - Provide Field-Driven Feedback: - Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and the Office of the CTO to deliver structured feedback from the field, ensuring future product roadmaps align with evolving federal defense requirements. - Act as a Force Multiplier: - Serve as a technical mentor to mid-level and junior Systems Engineers across the broader team, raising the overall technical capability and readiness of the organization. - Maintain Mission Flexibility: - Demonstrate operational autonomy across accounts and regions, maintaining the flexibility to support customer schedules and mission-critical engagements when national security priorities demand it. Qualifications - Expert-level understanding of SASE, SSE, and Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles, deployment models, and design tradeoffs in cloud and hybrid environments. - Deep familiarity with federal security frameworks, including NIST SP 800-207, OMB M-22-09, the Risk Management Framework (RMF), STIG compliance, and FedRAMP/DoD IL5/IL6 requirements. - Comprehensive knowledge of core networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF) and security technologies (Firewalls, IPS/IDS, IPsec, SSL/TLS, and micro-segmentation). - Strong command of identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) structures, including SSO, SAML, OAuth, and policy-driven access controls. - Practical experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and the integration of secure access platforms into complex enterprise environments. - Exceptional technical writing, diagramming, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to confidently advise customer architects, security directors, and agency leadership. Requirements - 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, solution architecture, or technical leadership within the cybersecurity or network security domains. - Demonstrated success supporting DoD, Federal Civilian, or highly regulated industries, with a clear understanding of the federal acquisition lifecycle. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience. Significant military technical leadership experience (such as senior non-commissioned officer roles in cyber or communications branches) is highly valued and recognized as equivalent experience. - DoD 8140/8570 compliance is highly desirable. Preferred advanced professional certifications include CISSP, CCSP, JNCIE, GIAC, or relevant vendor-specific credentials. - An active federal security clearance is preferred but not required at the time of hire. Benefits - Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. - Personal & Professional Development: Programs catered to helping you reach career goals, whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division. - Unconditional Inclusion: An inclusive environment where varied backgrounds are valued and succeed.

• Leads configuration, debugging, and support for information technology solutions • Leads field and corporate rollouts of technology • Leads the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs • Creates and optimizes specifications for technology solutions • Produces and manages purchase requests for hardware and software • Leads development of test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable successful rapid deployment of infrastructure as code to production • Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure • Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice) • Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations • Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify strategic opportunities for improvements and new initiatives • Leads the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific strategic technology to provide cost-effective solutions that meet THD requirements • Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, cloud, AI, and security architectures for products • Proactively creates and maintains infrastructure as code and AI models for continuous improvement • Participates in strategic project planning and management across multiple efforts • Develops formal training courses • Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure • Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams • Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security • Optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate • Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions • Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability • Acts as a vendor liaison, owning resourcing, issue management, and documentation • Leads the production of in-house documentation around solutions • Provides application support for software running in production • Acts as a mentor to more junior Systems Engineers • Drives converting KB articles into AI models • Drives changes to analytic models used to analyze performance