Advanced Services Engineer

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

Arista seeks an Advanced Services Engineer to provide advanced post-sales support, guidance, and assistance to account teams to address specific customer needs. In this position, you will be working as a technology expert in the Routing & Switching space to design, implement, and support (troubleshoot) our deployments within a number of customer infrastructures. The ideal candidate will also have a level of comfort communicating across all functions within Arista, as well as with clients and partners.

What You’ll Do

• You will provide advanced post-sales engineering support for Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Campus networking deployments for our enterprise and commercial customers.
• Review customer network designs for an EVPN, VxLAN, leaf-spine architecture and make recommendations for deployment.
• Migrate or interconnect to/from Cisco, Juniper, and other vendors to Arista infrastructure.
• Assist with configuration build-outs including creating network provisioning automation using Python and tools such as Chef or Ansible
• Assist with implementation and change controls.
• You will assist with proof of concepts (POC) and in-depth testing to validate design scenario.
• Provide bug scrubs and code recommendations.
• Provide interface to TAC and internal development teams and the customer
• You will provide customer advice regarding architectural questions, product prerequisites, product features, etc.
• Translate complex business requirements into Leaf-Spine Network solutions
• Assist Pre-Sales Engineer and Account Executives with designing Network solutions.
• Establish and maintaining strong relationships with key partners.
•  Attend key partner events, training sessions, and provide ongoing training with the customer teams globally.
• Continue training to maintain expertise.
• Ability to understand the client’s business objectives and technical needs.
• Ability to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for sales and clients.
• Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment.
• Maintain professional relationships with teammates, partners, and clients
• Some travel may be required within assigned territory.

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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.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Network Industry Certification preferred ACE (Arista Cloud Engineer or equivalent CCIE (R&S), JNCIE).
• 5+ years’ working experience with network technologies including network design and deployments of Campus and Data Center networks. Knowledge of leaf-spine architectures highly desired. 
• 5+ years’ minimum experience with Cisco-based technologies focusing on infrastructure and voice.
• Demonstrated experience in technical post-sales, as either a Network Consulting Engineer or as an Advanced Systems (AS) Engineer preferred.
• Experience with Arista/Juniper/Cisco enterprise routing/switching within large data center enterprise customers (Catalyst, Nexus, ASR).
• Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, EVPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, Multicast, QoS.
• Expertise in at least one area of Data Center related technologies - Openstack, SDN, NFV, Load Balancers, Virtualization, Linux tools.
• Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI.
• Ability to write white papers a plus.
• Background in Perl, Python, Scripting for creating network automation is highly desired.
• Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent written skills and the ability to do related documentation and ticket tracking of opportunities/meeting follow-up.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.