Proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges and conduct (white board) network architectural sessions and Arista product presentations
Architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional sales
Perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and features
Create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support
Leading technical responses to RFP/RFQs
Leading customer feature requests from customer requirements to implementation to deployment
Provide (customer) feedback to Product Management and Development
Represent Arista at industry events and conferences
Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products and services
Author white papers, blogs and articles on technology and products

Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone
Fluent in German and English (written and spoken)
Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business
Ability to travel on a National or Neighboring Country (if required) basis to support customers
Technical degree required
Networking design and implementation experience
Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols
Recent experience in Data Center, Routing and/or Campus network architecture designs
Excellent presentation skills
Deep knowledge of the relevant switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g.,Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation, etc)
Knowledge of Service Provider related technologies is a plus
Knowledge of Campus related technologies is a plus
Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape
Work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
Practical security deployment experience is a plus
Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired
Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible

Network Systems Engineer – Pre-Sales

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