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, Data Center, Campus, Network Automation. Partner with Account teams. Provide onsite technical systems engineering support”

What You'll Achieve.

Capture additional sales

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Problem management skills; Identify areas for improvement; Recommend improvements to customers

Eligibility Requirements

Support onsite requirements at customer site, Travel expectations is approximately 15-30%

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, Solid understanding of building customer relationships, Good interpersonal skills, Customer relations skills, Problem management skills, Experience creating technical material, Recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design, Expert knowledge in Ethernet, Expert knowledge in RSTP/ MSTP, Expert knowledge in VLANs, Expert knowledge in IP Routing, Expert knowledge in TCP/IP, Expert knowledge in OSPF, Expert knowledge in BGP, Expert knowledge in eBGP, Expert knowledge in VxLAN, Expert knowledge in EVPN, Expert knowledge in Multicast, Expert knowledge in Spanning Tree, Expert knowledge in 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, Demonstrated work experience as Solutions Architect, Demonstrated work experience as Pre-Sales SE, Demonstrated work experience as Network Consulting Engineer, Previous experience building network automation using Python, Previous experience building network automation using Ansible, Writing skills and ability to create informative white papers

What You'll Do.

Partner with Account teams

Provide onsite technical systems engineering support

Act as a trusted advisor for customers

Identify opportunities with customers

Collaborate with Arista Account Managers

Gain business understanding of clients

Gain technological understanding of clients

Conduct network architectural reviews

Identify areas for improvement

Conduct Arista product presentations

Own pre-sales technical relationship

Own post-sales technical relationship

Build deep knowledge of Arista technologies

Maintain deep knowledge of Arista technologies

Support channel partner engineers

Help enable channel partner engineers

Support customers' engineers

Help enable customers' engineers

Help enable architects

Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews

Support onsite requirements at customer site

Facilitate technical training on Arista products

Facilitate technical training on Arista differentiators

Facilitate technical training on Arista solutions

Facilitate technical training on Arista demos

Architect Arista Data Center network solutions

Design Arista Data Center network solutions

Propose Arista Data Center network solutions

Architect Arista Campus network solutions

Design Arista Campus network solutions

Propose Arista Campus network solutions

Perform hands-on testing

Validate customer proof-of-concept setups

Validate Data Center network designs

Validate Campus network designs

Validate network deployments

Put together design guidelines

Recommend improvements to customers

Partner with Sales Team

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

Represent Arista at conferences

Present technical content to worldwide organizations

Create technical marketing materials

Author white papers on technology

Author white papers on product

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Customer Engineering team; Arista Account teams; Product Management teams; Software Development teams; Arista TAC; Executive team; Sales Team; Channel partners

Communication Scope

Presentation skills; Selling skills; Communication of complex technical material; Executive presentations; Technical content presentation; White papers authoring

Process & Methodology

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