Senior Manager - Network Systems Engineer Pre-Sales - Hyperscalers

Who Youll Work With

When you join Arista as part of the Sales Engineering team youre not just stepping into a role; youre becoming part of a team of industry experts and technical leaders. Typically reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager youll be working alongside some of the most skilled field engineers in the industry. Our team prides itself on not just understanding the technology but also the business impact and aligning our solutions with the larger goals of our clients. In collaboration with our Product Management and Software Development teams you will play a pivotal role in steering product developments offerings and strategic direction to best serve our customers and prospects. Supported by the expertise of our world class Arista TAC cuttingedge proofofconcept resources and support of the executive team you are wellpositioned to lead and innovate within the industry.

What Youll Do

The Senior Manager Network Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team with the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our customers to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers. As a Lead in the Systems Engineering team you will be working with customers directly and also assisting team members in guiding on various opportunities within the region and across the regions as well.  This job will require you to be onsite interfacing with customers 5days a week in the Bay Area.

Responsibilities:                     

• Manage smaller team on an ongoing basis
• Guide the team members on the technical front
• Provide a career path to the team members and help them achieve it
• You will partner with the Arista Account Managers to understand customer pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews in addition to conducting Arista product presentations of Aristas Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus (including Wifi) networking solutions CloudVision (Network Automation) Security (Network Detection) Endpoint Security and Realtime Fabric Monitoring solutions.
• You will architect design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leafspine architectures (VxLAN EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.
• Perform handson tests to validate customer proofofconcept setups Data Center and/or Campus network designs and network deployments using new products and features.
• Put together design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support
• Partner with Sales Team to respond to RFP/RFQs
• Provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering
• Represent Arista at SDN and Open Networking industry events and conferences
• Keep uptodate on competitive solutions products and services
• Author white papers on technology and product

Qualifications :

• Previously spent considerable amount of time (3 years) in a Systems Engineering role
• BS/CS/CE technical degree required
• Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S) JNCIE)
• You possess a minimum of 7 of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center Campus and Wifi solutions.
• Expert level experience with routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols. 
• You possess recent experience in leafspine architecture design.
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer Solutions Architect PreSales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
• Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet RSTP/ MSTP VLANs IP Routing TCP/IP OSPF BGP eBGP VxLAN Multicast Spanning Tree QoS
• Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape Cisco Juniper
• Expert level knowledge of industrystandard CLI
• Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired.
• Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired.
• Knowledge of competitive products solutions and services
• Ability to write white papers a plus

Compensation Information:

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $159000 to $197000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors including skills qualifications relevant experience and work location. The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Aristas Sales Incentive Plan which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. USbased employees are also entitled to benefits including medical dental vision wellbeing tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime