About the position
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. The Competitive Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) position plays a vital role within the greater Go-To-Market/Business Operations team, providing competitive analysis, intelligence, and comparison of HPE Aruba Networking and other industry vendors. Members of the Competitive TME team are technical subject matter experts who extensively collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Customer Success teams. Outbound, the Competitive TME team provides sellers and partners deep-dive competitive analysis, presentations, and other technical competitive content. The successful candidate will ensure effective communication of HPE Aruba Networking's competitive differentiation from the competition with relevance to customer use cases, while also capturing valuable product feedback in the process.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with technical experts across a range of HPE Aruba Networking products and functional areas, including but not limited to data center and L2/L3 switching protocols (STP, QoS, BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, etc.) and other networking services relevant to data center networking solutions and deployments.
- Bring up network topologies and solutions of varying complexities and compare other vendors solutions to HPE Aruba Networking in a lab environment.
- Present competitive sessions at HPE Aruba Networking events and webinars for field, partner, and R&D engineers.
- Generate technical collateral which includes testing and comparing HPE Aruba Networking with industry vendor solutions, creating competitive analysis reports, third-party testing, sales collateral and assist in development and delivery of competitive updates when required.
- Help manage and maintain lab equipment and inventory.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. Hands-on experience building customer networks with a non-technical degree can substitute.
- 10+ years of experience in Technical Marketing Engineering.
- In-depth understanding of protocols such as MP-BGP, BGP, IS-IS, EVPN, VxLAN, OSPF, Multicast, MPLS, STP, VLANs, IPv4, IPv6, etc.
- Strong understanding of Data Center technologies such as Data Center Fabric/Spine architecture, EVPN-VXLAN Fabric, Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Border, Secure DCI, Multi-tier network design, IP Fabric, IPv6, storage networking.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort with public speaking.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts to understandable language to match the level of the audience.
Nice-to-haves
- Achieved well-recognized industry certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE. HPE ANW Certified Expert.
- In-depth understanding of multiple network operating systems (Cisco, Juniper, Arista etc.).
- Understanding of Ixia traffic generation tools.
- Lab management experience with console servers, VM infrastructure, storage arrays, server/hypervisor management (Proxmox, MS Hyper-V, KVM, etc.).
Benefits
- Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
- Personal & Professional Development: Programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have.
- Unconditional Inclusion: A commitment to inclusivity and flexibility in managing work and personal needs.
