Arista Networks
Networking
NetworkSystemsEngineer(PreSales)
“Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) at Arista Networks. Skills: Network Systems Engineering, Pre-Sales Support, Data Center Networking, Campus Networking. Partner with Account teams for pre-sales technical support. Act as a trusted advisor to customers”
Industry & Context.
Problem management skills
Travel expectations is approximately 15-30%, Local/Regional candidates only
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience, Data Center, Campus, and WIFI solutions experience, presentation and selling skills, 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, problem management skills, ability to stay calm and professional under pressure, working to strict deadlines, Experience creating technical material (slides, white papers, battle cards, solution guides, etc), 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, Network Industry Certification (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE, ACE-5, 6, 7), Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer experience, Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible, writing skills and ability to create informative white papers on technology and products
What You'll Do.
Partner with Account teams for pre-sales technical support
Act as a trusted advisor to customers
Gather customer requirements
Identify customer opportunities
Conduct whiteboard network architectural reviews
Present Arista product solutions
Own technical relationship with customers
Build and maintain knowledge of Arista technologies
Support channel partner engineers
Support customer engineers and architects
Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews
Support onsite customer requirements
Facilitate technical training
and propose network solutions
Perform hands-on testing
Put together design guidelines
Recommend network improvements
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
Create technical marketing materials
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Account teams; Work with Product Management; Work with Software Development; Collaborate with Arista TAC; Collaborate with executive team
Communication Scope
Communication of complex technical material; Writing skills
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