Network Systems Engineer

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a self-motivated Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer to provide pre-sales technical support for our customers and prospects in the United Kingdom.

The Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team. The main responsibility of the Systems Engineer is acting as a trusted advisor to our customers and prospects to identify opportunities, gather requirements and design creative solutions.

What will you gain:

• Deep technical, dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Be part of a small, highly motivated team and make a big impact with customers and within the company.
• Deep technical collaboration with technical colleagues in EMEA and worldwide.
• Continuous on-the-job learning through direct contact with engineering & development teams.
• Gaining in-depth hands-on experience with CLI, automation, scripting and tooling.
• Netops / Devops way of working.
• Flexible work environment (home office / flex office).
• Significant responsibility and extensive decision power.
• Having Fun!

What You’ll Do

• You will proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges and conduct (white board) network architectural sessions and Arista product presentations.
• You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional sales.
• You will perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and features.
• You will 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.

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Qualifications

• Currently holds DV (Developed Vetting) clearance or is able to apply within the next 12 months. Preference will be given to applicants who hold or have previously held DV clearance.
• Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone.
• Fluent in 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.
• CCIE, JNCIE or Industry Equivalent certified.