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Network Systems Engineer – Pre-Sales
| Company | Arista Networks |
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| Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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| Salary | $112000 – $160000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center, Campus, WI-FI and Security solutions
- Strong presentation and selling skills including communication of complex technical material
- Solid understanding and knowledge of how to build successful relationships between an equipment manufacturer and a customer base of executives, architects, engineers and operations teams
- Good interpersonal skills, customer relations skills, and problem management skills, with the ability to stay calm and professional under pressure while working to strict deadlines
- Experience creating technical material (slides, white papers, battle cards, solution guides, etc)
- Solid knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services
Responsibilities
- Acting as a trusted advisor for customers and partners to gather requirements and identify opportunities
- Owning the pre and post-sales technical relationship with the assigned territory and customer base
- Building and maintaining a deep, sound knowledge of all Arista technologies
- Facilitating technical training on Arista’s products, differentiators, solutions, and demos
- Engaging with key partners to develop proficiencies in delivering services around Arista’s solution set
- Participating in the execution of Proof of Concepts (POCs) and on-site customer testing
- Executing technical Quarterly Business Reviews with customer base
- Supporting onsite requirements at the customer site
- Responding to inbound questions from customers including research and lab testing of solutions
- Presenting technical content to worldwide organizations both virtually and in-person
- Creating technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization
- Travel expectations is approximately 10%
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Network Overlay and Virtualization is highly desired
- Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired
- Network Industry Certification including Arista Cloud Engineer (ACE) level 3-5 desired
