Overview
The Network 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.
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.
Qualifications
* Highly‑motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone.
* Fluent in English (written and spoken).
* Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business.
* Ability to travel on a National or Neighboring Country basis to support customers (if required).
* Technical degree required.
* Networking design and implementation experience.
* Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols.
* Recent experience in Data Center, Routing and/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).
* Knowledge of Service Provider related technologies is a plus.
* Knowledge of Campus related technologies is a plus.
* 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 plus.
* Recent hands‑on CLI experience highly desired.
* Experience and/or interest in learning NetOps / DevOps using tools such as Python and Ansible.
* CCIE, JNCIE or Industry Equivalent certified.
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