Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)

Who Youll Work With

When you join Arista as part of the Sales Engineering team youre not just stepping into a role; youre becoming part of a team of industry experts and technical leaders. Typically reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager youll be working alongside some of the most skilled field engineers in the industry. Our team prides itself on not just understanding the technology but also the business impact and aligning our solutions with the larger goals of our collaboration with our Product Management and Software Development teams you will play a pivotal role in steering product developments offerings and strategic direction to best serve our customers and prospects. Supported by the expertise of our world class Arista TAC cutting-edge proof-of-concept resources and support of the executive team you are well-positioned to lead and innovate within the industry.

What Youll Do

We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a collaborative self-motivated Network Systems Engineer to partner with our Account teams to provide pre-sales technical systems engineering support for our enterprise/commercial customers.

The Network Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team with the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our customers to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers.

Responsibilities:

You will partner with the Arista Account Managers to understand customer pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews in addition to conducting Arista product presentations of Aristas Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus (including Wi-fi) networking solutions CloudVision (Network Automation) Security (Network Detection) Endpoint Security and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions.

• You will architect design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.
• Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups Data Center and/or Campus network designs and network deployments using new products and features
• Put together design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support
• Partner with Sales Team to respond to RFP/RFQs
• Provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering
• Represent Arista at SDN and Open Networking industry events and conferences
• Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions products and services
• Author white papers on technology and product

Qualifications :

• BS/CS/CE technical degree 
• Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S) JNCIE)
• You possess a minimum of 7 years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center and Campus networks. 
• You possess expert level expertise in routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols.(Cisco Juniper Extreme Aruba) 
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer Solutions Architect Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
• Previous experience with network overlays preferred. 
• Expert knowledge in three or more of the following areas: Ethernet RSTP/ MSTP VLANs IP Routing TCP/IP BGP eBGP VxLAN EVPN Multicast Spanning Tree QoS
• Expert-level knowledge of industry-standard CLI
• Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired. 
• Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired.
• Knowledge of competitive products solutions and services

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time