Job Description

Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) - Client to Cloud Networking

● United Kingdom ● Full-time

Job Description

What will you do?

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 UK and Ireland.

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 are your responsibilities:

• 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

What do we expect:

• Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone
• Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business
• Technical degree required
• Networking design and implementation experience
• Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols
• Recent experience in Data Center, Routing 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)
• 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 bonus
• Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired
• Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible

Qualifications

• Arista Cloud Engineering (ACE) Level 5 or higher Qualifications or equivalent Industry qualifications.