Network Systems Engineer – Pre-Sales

Network Systems Engineer – Pre-Sales

Requirements

• BS/CS/CE technical degree required
• Minimum of 5+ years 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
• Recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design
• Expert knowledge in Ethernet, RSTP/MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS
• Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Arista Account Managers to understand customer pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews
• Conduct Arista product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus networking solutions
• Architect, design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN)
• 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)
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
• Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired
• Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired
• Ability to write white papers a plus