Technical Solutions Engineer Cloud, Hyperscalers and AI networks

Who Youll Work With

Are you a top-tier Technical Support Engineer with a passion for solving customer problems At Arista we are obsessed with making our customers successful and believe that giving our customers direct access to a top-level engineer who thrives on solving complex problems helps streamline the support process and nurture customer success. 

We are seeking world-class technical solutions engineers (TSE) to come join our team to help support our products and solutions. A TSE at Arista is equivalent to a Tier 3 TAC or Escalation Engineer in most support organizations. We drive the success of our customers through passion and teamwork and via ensuring quick response times. You will work with a diverse multicultural team of top-notch engineers who act as our customers champions. You will also work closely with members of software/hardware engineering product management customer engineering and sales teams. The team culture is one of collaboration among highly technical individuals as we work as One Team to deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction.

What Youll Do

The ideal candidate possesses the ability to troubleshoot complex and dynamic Hyperscaler customer environments including networks built to support AI and accelerated computing workloads  while balancing the communications needs of each case. A strong analytical mind is required as is the ability to triage. As we are continually releasing new features and products a high aptitude for both learning and teaching are required.
Our engineers work closely with other members of Customer Engineering as well as both Software and Hardware developmentboth in diagnosing problems as well as communicating them in multiple technical contexts. Thus excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must as is a collaborative approach.

Responsibilities

• Resolve customer concerns raised during installation operation maintenance of Arista products
• Investigate complex hardware and software network issues collaborating with sales account teams and development teams to provide post-call summaries including root cause and next step solutions.
• Document customer communication and recurring technical issues to support product quality and product development programs.

Qualifications :

• Working knowledge of networking industry products and protocols
• Working knowledge or experience with data centers powering Artificial Intelligence is highly desired
• Preferred minimum of 3-5 years hands-on experience and a combination of the following; designing deploying configuring supporting troubleshooting debugging and administering the following network protocols and technologies:
  • L1 and L2 Technologies including:
    • Auto-negotiation including FEC L1 debugging VLAN LACP LLDP STP/RSTP/MST MACSec
  • L3 Technologies
    • ARP Core Routing (OSPF BGP IS-IS)  IPV4 & IPv6 MPLS LDP DHCP VARP/VRRP VRF ICMP ECMP
  • System Administration
    • AAA/TACACS SNMP Sflow ACL
  • Cloud and AI Technologies Including:
    • QoS FlowControl PFC Packet Forwarding and Buffering Shaping and Policing
• Open source network operating system especially SONiC is highly desired
• Experience with troubleshooting tools such tcpdump and Wireshark (or similar packet generation and analysis tools) is required
• A strong comfort level with Linux is highly desired
• Familiarity with shell scripting python gNMI/gRPC or Ansible is a plus
• Troubleshooting high-speed network connections (400G/800G) familiarity with  OSFP/QSFP/LPO optics and link diagnostics like PRBS will be a plus
• Minimum education preferred is a BS in a technical field (Network focused preferred). Industry certifications preferred. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for audiences ranging from engineering to executive management
• Customer facing experience or prior TAC experience is highly desired.

Compensation Information

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $90000 to $150000. 

Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors including skills qualifications relevant experience and work location. 

The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Aristas Sales Incentive Plan which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible -based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical dental vision wellbeing tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location. 

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Additional Information :

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer.  Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal state or law law.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time