Provide pre-sales technical support for our customers and prospects in Norway
Partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges
Conduct network architectural sessions and product presentations
Architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions
Perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and initial network deployments
Create design guidelines and recommend improvements for networks
Lead technical responses to RFP/RFQs
Lead customer feature requests from requirements to deployment
Provide feedback to Product Management and Development
Represent Arista at industry events and conferences
Author white papers, blogs and articles on technology and products

Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player
Fluent in Norwegian and English
Technical degree required
Networking design and implementation experience
Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols
Recent experience in Data Center, Routing or Campus network architecture designs
Excellent presentation skills
Deep knowledge of relevant switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g.,Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation, etc)
Good understanding of competitor technology landscape
Work experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
Practical security deployment experience is a bonus
Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired
Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible
Arista Cloud Engineering (ACE) Level 5 or higher Qualifications or equivalent Industry qualifications

Network Systems Engineer – Pre-Sales, Cloud Networking

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