What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Systems Engineer Pre-Sales position at Arista Networks?
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 clients. In 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 cuttingedge proofofconcept resources and support of the executive team you are wellpositioned to lead and innovate within the industry.
What Youll Do
We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a collaborative selfmotivated PreSales Network Systems Engineer OR Network Architect to partner with our Account teams to provide presales technical systems engineering support for our enterprise customers in the Greater Houston area.
The 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.
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 Wifi) networking solutions CloudVision (Network Automation) Security (Network Detection) Endpoint Security and Realtime Fabric Monitoring solutions.
You will architect design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leafspine architectures (VxLAN EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.
Perform handson tests to validate customer proofofconcept 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 uptodate on competitive solutions products and services
Author white papers on technology and product
Qualifications :
BS / CS / CE technical degree required
Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S) JNCIE)
You possess a minimum of 5 of L2 / L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center Campus and Wif solutions.
Expert level experience with routing and switching including L2 / L3 protocols.
You possess recent experience in leafspine architecture design.
Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer Solutions Architect PreSales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
Expert knowledge in the following areas : Ethernet RSTP / MSTP VLANs IP Routing TCP / IP OSPF BGP eBGP VxLAN Multicast Spanning Tree QoS
Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape Cisco Juniper
Expert level knowledge of industrystandard 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
Ability to write white papers a plus
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Additional Information :
Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employmentrelated decisions in a nondiscriminatory 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 : Employment Type :
Fulltime
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Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
