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Senior Systems Engineer – Pre-Sales
| Company | Arista Networks |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $140000 – $197000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- BS/CS/CE technical degree required
- Minimum of 7+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center networks
- Expert level expertise in routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols (Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Aruba)
- Expert knowledge in three or more of the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, EVPN, 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 solutions, CloudVision (Network Automation), Security (Network Detection), Endpoint Security and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions
- Architect, design and propose Arista Data Center solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN) and network overlays
- Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, Data Center 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
- Previous experience with network overlays preferred
- Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired
- Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired
- Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services
- Ability to write white papers a plus
- Local to the area
