Professional Services Engineer

Summary

Join Arista Networks as a Professional Services expert, guiding clients through the entire lifecycle of Arista network deployments. You will analyze customer needs, design and implement solutions, and provide ongoing operational support. This role requires extensive experience in IP networking, design, and implementation, including Spine & Leaf infrastructure and advanced network protocols. You will develop high and low-level design documents, test plans, and migration procedures. Arista offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills, leadership experience, and relevant certifications.

Requirements

• Specializing in design and deployment of industry-leading networking solutions
• Ability to develop accurate and meaningful requirements
• High level and low level design experience for Spine & Leaf infrastructure
• Advanced network protocol knowledge, especially BGP, EVPN, VXLAN and SR
• Linux operating system and scripting knowledge
• Experience of delivering technical and operational training to customers
• Basic/Advanced Python programming skills
• 10+ years of industry experience focused on IP networks
• Led and delivered several projects including greenfield implementations, complete migrations and integration efforts
• A computer science (or similar) degree
• Prior Arista Hardware or EOS experience
• CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications/ equivalents, security certifications such as CISSP/equivalents
• Excellent written and verbal skills

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer situation to develop requirements and gather technical requirements for the purpose of designing a network to be deployed
• Develop and provide designs in line with requirements. Write High and Low Level Design documents based on gathered requirements for guidance and reference during and after Arista network deployment
• Implementation and migration planning detail and support
• Write and execute test plans for purpose of validating newly deployed Arista networks once the deployment is complete in order to ensure new infrastructures are capable of carrying production network traffic
• Work with customers to plan, write, and execute Methods of Procedure documents outlining steps to seamlessly migrate production network traffic from legacy infrastructure to the newly deployed Arista Network Fabric
• Perform Knowledge Transfer training on Arista network designs, platforms, and features to Arista Professional Services customers
• Ongoing operational support to the customer
• Develop professional relationships with customers to assist them with Arista solution deployment projects
• Assist project management in developing project plans to track deployment project task execution, communication cadence with customers, and timelines
• Travel to customer locations required

Benefits

• The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $117,000 to $192,000 across the US
• Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market
• In addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity
• 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