Job Description
Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) - Client to Cloud Networking
● United Kingdom ● Full-time
Job Description
What will you do?
We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a self-motivated Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer to provide pre-sales technical support for our customers and prospects in the UK and Ireland.
The Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team. The main responsibility of the Systems Engineer is acting as a trusted advisor to our customers and prospects to identify opportunities, gather requirements and design creative solutions.
What will you gain:
* Deep technical, dynamic, startup-like environment
* Be part of a small, highly motivated team and make a big impact with customers and within the company
* Deep technical collaboration with technical colleagues in EMEA and worldwide
* Continuous on-the-job learning through direct contact with engineering & development teams
* Gaining in-depth hands-on experience with CLI, automation, scripting and tooling
* Netops / Devops way of working
* Flexible work environment (home office / flex office)
* Significant responsibility and extensive decision power
* Having Fun!
What are your responsibilities:
* You will proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges and conduct (white board) network architectural sessions and Arista product presentations
* You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional sales
* You will perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and features
* You will create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support
* Leading technical responses to RFP/RFQs
* Leading customer feature requests from customer requirements to implementation to deployment
* Provide (customer) feedback to Product Management and Development
* Represent Arista at industry events and conferences
* Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products and services
* Author white papers, blogs and articles on technology and products
What do we expect:
* Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone
* Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business
* Technical degree required
* Networking design and implementation experience
* Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols
* Recent experience in Data Center, Routing or Campus network architecture designs
* Excellent presentation skills
* Deep knowledge of the relevant switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g.,Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation, etc)
* Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape
* Work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales
* Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
* Practical security deployment experience is a bonus
* Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired
* Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible
Qualifications
* Arista Cloud Engineering (ACE) Level 5 or higher Qualifications or equivalent Industry qualifications.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.