Arista Networks

Technology

Advisory/ResidentSystemsEngineer(Mandarinrequired)

$130–187k San Jose, California, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Advisory/ Resident Systems Engineer - (Mandarin required) at Arista Networks. Skills: Networking, Systems Engineering, Data Center, Campus Networks. Provide onsite technical systems engineering support. Act as a trusted advisor for customers”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Problem management skills

Eligibility Requirements

Support onsite requirements, 15-30% travel

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Fluent in English and Mandarin, BS/CS/CE Business or Technical degree, Minimum 5+ years L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience, Focus on Data Center, Campus, and WIFI solutions, Presentation and selling skills, Communication of complex technical material, Solid understanding of building successful relationships, Experience creating technical material, Recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design, Expert knowledge in Ethernet, RSTP/MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, EVPN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS, Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI

Nice to Have

MBA/MS degree a plus, Network Industry Certification preferred, Demonstrated work experience as Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred, Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible HIGHLY desired, Writing skills and ability to create informative white papers on technology and products is highly desired

What You'll Do.

Provide onsite technical systems engineering support

Act as a trusted advisor for customers

Identify opportunities with customers

Gain business and technological understanding of clients

Conduct network architectural reviews

Identify areas for improvement

Conduct product presentations

Own the pre-sales technical relationship

Own the post-sales technical relationship

Build deep knowledge of Arista technologies

Support channel partner engineers

Help enable customers' engineers and architects

Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews

Support onsite requirements at customer site

Facilitate technical training on products

Architect network solutions

Design network solutions

Propose network solutions

Perform hands-on testing

Validate customer proof-of-concept setups

Validate network designs

Validate network deployments

Put together design guidelines

Recommend improvements to customers

Partner with Sales Team to respond to RFPs/RFQs

Author feature requests

Author business justifications

Provide feedback to Product Management

Provide feedback to Hardware Development

Provide feedback to Software Development

Represent Arista at industry events

Present technical content to organizations

Create technical marketing materials

Author white papers on technology

Author white papers on product

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Account Managers; Collaborate with Product Management; Collaborate with Software Development; Work with Arista Account teams; Work with Arista TAC; Work with executive team; Partner with Sales Team

Communication Scope

Presentation skills; Selling skills; Technical presentations; Executive presentations

Process & Methodology

RFP/RFQs response

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