Network Systems Engineer

Summary

Join Arista Networks' Sales Engineering team as a Network Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, partnering with Account Managers to provide technical support for Service Provider customers. You will act as a trusted advisor, gathering requirements and identifying opportunities. Responsibilities include conducting network architectural reviews, product presentations, and designing high-performance solutions using Leaf-Spine architectures. You will also perform hands-on tests, create design guidelines, respond to RFPs/RFQs, provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering, represent Arista at industry events, and stay updated on competitive solutions. This role requires a BS/CS/CE degree and 7+ years of L2/L3 networking experience. Arista offers a competitive salary range of $110,000 to $185,000, plus benefits and a sales incentive plan.

Requirements

• BS/CS/CE technical degree required
• You possess a minimum of 7+ 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
• 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
• Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services

Responsibilities

• Partner with our Account Managers to provide pre-sales technical systems engineering support for our Service Provider customers
• 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 Service Provider and Multimedia customers
• You will partner with the Arista Account Managers to understand Service Provider pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews in addition to conducting product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center, Service Provider Edge, 5G Edge, Cloud Grade Routing and our Cloud Vision platform (Network Automation)
• You will 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE, ACE-3,4, 5,6,7)
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Architect preferred
• Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired
• Proficient in Python, Ansible, and other automation tools, with prior experience building network automation solutions
• Ability to write white papers a plus

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Wellbeing
• Tax savings
• Income protection