Advisory Systems Engineer

Role Overview

• Proactively reach out to the customer to position Arista products in DC, Campus, Routing, AI, CV etc in order to expand account footprint.
• Provide Technical assistance on new opportunities including Proof of Concept testing at Arista and in customer's labs
• Ensure the customer is performing operational health checks, compliance reviews, and automation maturity assessments.
• Assist in deploying and integrating CloudVision, APIs, and automation toolsets.
• Support customers in implementing workflows for monitoring, telemetry, and provisioning.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in customer environments using Arista’s open, programmable platforms.
• Ensure the customer is deploying a Modern Operating model and they are reducing their TCO for running their infrastructure.
• Deliver strategic and advanced technical workshops (automation, CI/CD, CloudVision, AVD).
• Identify training needs, and provide guidance on training, certification, and skill uplift of customer teams.
• Produce business-oriented documentation: success runbooks, solution blueprints. adoption roadmaps, and optimization reports.
• Primary account team contact for Customer's Operations team supporting QBRs (quarterly business review), QoRs and feedback loops
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, Arista TAC, and engineering, but focus on proactive solutions.
• Coordinate with SEs (strategy/pre-sales) and PS (execution) teams to ensure end-to-end customer lifecycle coverage.
• Evangelize Arista PS and match customer requirements to PS deliverables.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles (network consulting, customer success, solution architecture etc.)
• Expertise in L2/L3 networking, routing (OSPF, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN) and automation ecosystems (EOS, CloudVision, Ansible, Terraform, Python)
• Strong consultative and business acumen; experience linking technical outcomes to revenue growth
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and advisory skills
• Arista ACE certification (or willingness to obtain within the first 90 days).
• Background in customer facing consultative roles including professional services or customer success engineering preferred
• Knowledge and understanding of data center, cloud, campus or routing environments.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Cloud
• Python
• Terraform

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities