Network Systems Engineer (pre-sales) Job in Arista

Job Description

Job Description

You will partner with the Arista Account Managers to understand customer pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews in addition to conducting Arista product presentations of Arista s Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus (including Wifi) networking solutions, CloudVision (Network Automation), Security (Network Detection), Endpoint Security and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions.

You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN) and network overlays 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

Qualifications

BS/CS/CE technical degree required.

Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE).

You possess a minimum of 5+ years of experience of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center, Campus, and Wifi solutions.

Expert level experience with routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols.

You possess recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design.

Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred.

Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS.

Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape - Cisco, Juniper.

Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI.

Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is highly desired.

Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired.

Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services.

The Ability to write white papers is a plus.

Additional Information

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