Arista Networks is hiring a
Network Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Arista Networks as a Network Solutions Architect in the Service Provider Sales Engineering and Solutions Architect team. Collaborate with industry experts to provide pre-sales technical support for Service Provider customers, architect and design high-performance Data Center & Service Provider solutions, and participate in key industry conferences.

Requirements

• BS/CS/CE technical degree required
• Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE)
• You possess a minimum of 15+ of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on high performance Service Provider networks and Data Centers
• Expert level experience with routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols
• You possess recent experience in Leaf-Spine architecture design
• Previous experience designing, deploying and configuring large scale MPLS based networks
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Architect preferred
• Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, MPLS, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS
• Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape - Cisco, Juniper
• Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Managers to provide pre-sales technical support for Service Provider customers
• Work on participating in key industry conferences evangelizing Arista Network technologies to the Service Provider customers
• Gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new Service Provider customers
• Conduct white board network architectural reviews and product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center, Service Provider Edge, 5G Edge, Cloud Grade Routing and our Cloud Vision platform (Network Automation)
• Architect, design and propose Arista's high performance Data Center & Service Provider solutions using Leaf-Spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN and BGP) and Open IP/MPLS 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
• Participate in Key Industry Events
• Work with broader Marketing and PLM organization to generate key collateral for Service Providers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired
• Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired

Benefits

• The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $110,000 to $185,000 across the US. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location
• Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales
• US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection