Professional Services Consultant - Data Center IP Fabric SDNThis role has been designed as Onsite with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE partner/customer office.

What you ll do:

This highly technical role provides Architectural, Design, and Implementation Consultancy services for HPEs Networks Solutions targeted at Service Provider customers. The consultant must develop and maintain Data Center architecture solutions expertise and apply network automation through Fabric SDN controllers such as HPE Data Center Director (DCD) to ease their implementations and operations.

This role is a full-time post-sales position on-site and remote, working as part of a wider HPE Professional Services team. This role will require 10% travel.

What is DCD

DCD is HPE s newest acquisition, bringing state-of-the-art Data Center automation to its customers. It provides integrated design, deployment, and management of VXLAN / EVPN Clos fabric networks in a vendor-agnostic way through a single pane of glass. Using advanced automation technology, manual, bespoke design, and operational tasks have become a thing of the past.

Responsibilities:

- This position will be an Individual Contributor Role
- Run requirements and scoping workshops with customers, delivery partners, and sales.
- Acting as a Technical lead for significant network deployments and migrations where responsibilities include delivery of Professional Services milestones, including creating high-level and low-level design documentation, migration planning, product integration, and acceptance.
- Follow the HPE Professional Services engagement and delivery processes, working closely with the Project Manager.
- Work closely with colleagues and customer personnel to help test, design, and plan for deployments of new products and features.
- Support networks in the early stages of deployment
- Formulate network management strategies
- Act as a Professional Services project leader on larger projects,



coordinating the work of a larger delivery team and owning overall responsibility for network implementation.
- Provide appropriate training (Knowledge Transfer workshops) to HPE Networks partners and customers.
- Develop and maintain solid relationships with the customers technical management and teams.
- Participation in requirements gathering workshops, discussions, and meetings with Customer s Design, Test, and/or Engineering Teams
- Providing input related to best practices in design, implementation, and/or migration planning, and validation verification testing
- Assisting with hand-over to Operations or to a HPE Networks Operational RE
- Tracking and reporting of issues found during testing, Implementation and migration.

Must have skills Expert communication and interpersonal skills.

Effective consultancy, planning communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work on multiple projects and manage customers appropriately.

The mature customer first focus

Strong planning and designing experience.

Commitment to delivering a remarkable customer experience.

Excellent and deep hands-on and planning capabilities in advanced Data Center technologies - VxLAN, EVPN, MCLAG, IP Fabric

Strong knowledge of IP-related protocols, including IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, QOS solutions, and IPv6 standards/protocols

Familiar with any DC fabric SDN/manager/orchestration tool

Hands-on experience with Linux servers and network services (DHCP, SNMP, FTP, TFTP, DNS, NTP).

Basic knowledge of data structures, algorithms, HTTP/REST APIs

Familiar with Linux, Python, and version control systems such as Git





- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

What you need to bring:

Desirable Education and Experience:

Bachelor or Master of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar discipline

8+ years experience in the enterprise/telco/content provider Data Center environment

Desirable Skill s

JUNOS skills and hands-on planning capabilities with QFX, EX, and MX Series products.

Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here .

Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

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.

Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.

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