Network Systems Engineer – Pre-Sales

Role Overview

• Providing pre-sales technical support for our enterprise and commercial clients in the San Diego region.
• The Systems Engineer plays a vital role in the Arista Sales team, primarily serving as a trusted advisor to our customers, collecting their requirements, and pinpointing opportunities with existing and prospective clients.
• Partnering with the Arista Account Managers to understand customer challenges and conduct whiteboard network architectural reviews.
• Conducting Arista product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus (including Wifi) networking solutions, CloudVision (Network Automation), Security (Network Detection and Response), Endpoint Security(Network Access Control), and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions(Network Packet Broker.)
• Architecting, designing, and proposing Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.
• Performing hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, Data Center and Campus network designs, and network deployments using new products and features.
• Putting together design guidelines and recommending improvements to customers for the networks they support.
• Partnering with Sales Team to respond to RFP/RFQs.
• Providing feedback to Product Management and Engineering.
• Representing Arista at industry events and conferences.
• Keeping up-to-date on competitive solutions, products, and services.
• Authoring white papers on technology and product.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in technical fields preferred
• Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. ACE:L5, CCIE, JNCIE)
• You possess at least 7+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience focusing on Data Center and Campus networks.
• You possess expert-level expertise in routing and switching, including L2/L3 protocols, Wi-Fi is a plus.
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE, or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
• Previous experience with network overlays is preferred.
• 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
• Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired.
• Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services
• Ability to write white papers a plus.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Python
• Switching
• TCP/IP

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• wellbeing
• tax savings
• income protection