Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in Cognitive Cloud Networking for mission critical data center and campus environments. Our award winning open source platforms deliver ultra low latency, high availability, automated analytics and secure network solutions.

Our culture is one that is founded on our core key values which resonate across all of our employee and include respect, integrity, teamwork, innovation, passion, trust and quality.

Job Description

What Will You Do?

Arista Networks is seeking an accomplished Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer who will leverage their technical expertise of mission critical networks and routing and switching to provide technical systems engineering support to expand the Arista brand for our customers. 

Responsibilities:

• The Pre-Sales Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team with the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our customers and partners to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers.
• Own the pre and post-sales technical relationship with the assigned territory and customer base
• Build and maintain a deep, sound knowledge of all Arista technologies, in order to support and help in the enablement of strategic customers
• Facilitate technical training on Arista’s products, differentiators, solutions, and demos
• Engage with key partners to develop proficiencies in delivering services around Arista’s solution set
• Participate in the execution of Proof of Concepts (POCs) and on-site customer testing
• Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews with customer base
• Support onsite requirements at the customer site
• Respond to inbound questions from the customers including research and lab testing of solutions
• Present technical content to worldwide organizations both virtually and in-person
• Create technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization
• Travel expectations is approximately 10%

Qualifications

Who Are You?

You are a driven Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Network Architect with a passion for acting as a technical trusted advisor for your customers. You possess in-depth technical expertise within routing and switching including network architecture and design experience. 

• 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
• 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. 

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Additional Information

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