Senior Systems Engineer Pre-Sales

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 System 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

We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a collaborative selfmotivated Senior Systems Engineer to partner with our Account teams to provide presales technical systems engineering support for our enterprise/commercial customers in the Northern India area.

• The 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.

• 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 Centre and Cognitive Campus (including Wifi) networking solutions CloudVision (Network Automation) Security (Network Detection & Response) Endpoint Security and Realtime Fabric Monitoring solutions.

• You will architect design and propose Arista Data Centre & Campus network solutions using leafspine architectures (VxLAN EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.

• Perform handson tests to validate customer proofofconcept setups Data Centre 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 :

• BE/BS/CS/CE technical degree required
• Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S) JNCIE)
• You possess a minimum of 10 years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Centre and Campus networks. 
• You possess expert level expertise in routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols (Cisco Juniper Extreme Aruba) 
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer Solutions Architect PreSales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
• Previous experience with network overlays preferred. 
• Expert knowledge in three or more of the following areas: Ethernet RSTP/ MSTP VLANs IP Routing TCP/IP BGP eBGP VxLAN EVPN Multicast Spanning Tree QoS
• Expertlevel 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

Additional Information :

Arista stands out as an engineeringcentric company. Our leadership including founders and engineering managers are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara California with development offices in Australia Canada India Ireland and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention quality respect and fun.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime