Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)

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Arista Networks

πŸ“Remote - Germany

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Summary

Join Arista Networks as a Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer and contribute to our growing team in Germany. You will act as a trusted advisor to customers, designing and implementing Arista network solutions. This role involves collaborating with account managers, leading technical responses to RFPs/RFQs, and representing Arista at industry events. You will leverage your expertise in data center, routing, and campus network architectures to drive new business. Success in this position requires strong technical skills, excellent presentation abilities, and fluency in German and English.

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)

Responsibilities

  • Proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges and 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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

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