Act as a trusted advisor to our customers, gathering requirements, qualifying opportunities, and designing solutions.
Collaborate with Arista Account Managers for an in-depth understanding of enterprise and commercial clients.
Conduct architectural designs to develop solutions that improve network performance, efficiency and customer TCO.
Conduct product presentations of Arista's networking solutions.
Utilize expertise in network design and implementation to create scalable network solutions.
Work with customers and proof-of-concept teams to validate network designs and deployments.
Collaborate with the sales team to respond to RFP/RFQs and provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering.
Author and collaborate on customer-facing content highlighting Arista technology and products.

Minimum of 5 years of experience in L2/L3 networking design and implementation with a focus on Campus and Wi-Fi solutions.
Expert-level experience with routing and switching, including .1x and NAC integrations plus POE Overlay technologies experience (such as EVPN/VxLAN) is a plus.
Current hands-on experience in designing campus and leaf-spine network architectures.
Proven work experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE, or Network Consulting Engineer is preferred.
Expert knowledge in Ethernet, RSTP/MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, .1x and QoS.
Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape, specifically Cisco and Juniper.
Expert-level knowledge of the industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI).
Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible is highly desired.
Strong writing skills and ability to create informative white papers on technology and products is highly desired.

Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales.
US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection.

Systems Engineer – Wired and Wireless

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