Remote Network Systems Engineer

Summary

Join Arista Networks, an industry leader in data-driven networking, as a self-motivated Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer to provide technical support for customers and prospects in Germany. As a critical component of the Arista Sales team, you will act as a trusted advisor to identify opportunities, gather requirements, and design creative solutions.

Requirements

• Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone
• Fluent in German and 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 (if required) basis to support customers
• 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

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to our customers and prospects to identify opportunities, gather requirements and design creative solutions
• Proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges
• Conduct (white board) network architectural sessions and Arista product presentations
• Architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional sales
• Perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and features
• 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