Associate Specialist - Presales (Aruba Networking)

About the role

Ingram Micro, a technology company serving the global IT sales channel, is hiring an Associate Specialist - Presales (Aruba) in New Delhi. The role suits a pre-sales solution engineer with 4-6 years of experience who designs and positions enterprise networking and wireless solutions across mixed OEM environments such as Aruba, Juniper and Ruckus, working with sales, partners and customers.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure network architectures and deliver HLDs, LLDs, BoQs and PoCs
• Design end-to-end enterprise network solutions (campus LAN, WLAN, branch/WAN) aligned to OEM best practices
• Act as a technical advisor, giving solution presentations, demos and architecture walkthroughs
• Support wired and wireless PoCs and turn technical designs into business value propositions
• Lead technical responses to RFPs/RFIs/RFQs, including compliance matrices, solution narratives and scope documents
• Support deal qualification, pricing discussions, OEM registrations and solution validation with distributors and OEM teams
• Coordinate with professional services and deployment teams for handover and implementation readiness
• Maintain design documentation and guide junior engineers and delivery teams

Required profile

• 4-6 years of experience as a pre-sales solutions engineer
• Bachelor's degree in engineering (BE/B.Tech) or equivalent
• OEM and vendor-neutral certifications such as Aruba and Juniper (as applicable)

Required skills

• L2/L3 switching and routing on Aruba CX and Juniper EX/QFX platforms
• VLAN design, segmentation, inter-VLAN routing and traffic optimization
• High availability designs with MLAG, VSF, Virtual Chassis, LACP and Spanning Tree
• Campus and branch network architecture, scaling and modernization
• Aruba and Ruckus wireless (Aruba Central, ClearPass, SmartZone, Cloud Wi-Fi); RF design, site surveys, capacity planning and Wi-Fi security (802.1X, captive portals)
• SD-WAN, Juniper SRX routing, MPLS to internet migration, VPNs, NAC with ClearPass and secure BYOD access
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP, AD, DNS, DHCP, NTP and wireless security integration