Partner with Account Managers to understand customer pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews
Conduct product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus solutions
Architect, design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions
Validate customer proof-of-concept setups and designs
Put together design guidelines and recommend improvements
Respond to RFP/RFQs with Sales Team
Provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering
Represent Arista at industry events and conferences
Author white papers on technology and product

BS/CS/CE technical degree
Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE)
Minimum of 7+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience
Expert level expertise in routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols (Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Aruba)
Experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
Expertise 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
Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired
Experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired

Network Systems Engineer – Pre-Sales

Key skills