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: present solutions, run demos and architecture walkthroughs, and support wired and wireless PoCs
• 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, maintain design documentation and guide junior engineers

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 (MLAG, VSF, Virtual Chassis, LACP, Spanning Tree)
• Aruba and Ruckus wireless (Aruba Central, ClearPass, SmartZone, Cloud Wi-Fi), RF design, site surveys and Wi-Fi security (802.1X, captive portals)
• SD-WAN, Juniper SRX routing, MPLS to internet migration, VPNs and NAC with ClearPass
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP) and wireless security integration (AD, DNS, DHCP, NTP)