Network Systems Engineer Pre-Sales - Hyperscale Team

Who Youll Work With
This is a fulltime onsite role as a Network Systems Engineer at Arista Networks in the San Francisco Bay Area.

When you join Arista as part of the Hyperscaler team youre not just stepping into a role; youre becoming part of a team of industry experts and technical leaders. Youll be working alongside some of the most skilled engineers in the industry building some of the biggest networks on the earth. 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 worldclass Arista TAC cuttingedge proofofconcept resources and the 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 Network/Systems Engineer OR within our Cloud Account teams to provide technical systems engineering support for our cloud customers in the Northern California area.

• The Systems/Network 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 architect design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leafspine architectures
• You will be working with the hyperscalers on nextgeneration architectures and products.
• Deliver NPI and lead the way into mass production at scale for hyper scalers
• 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
• You will partner with the Arista Account Manager to understand customer pain points and conduct whiteboard 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.

Qualifications :

• Data Centre Network Architecture Network Design and Network Engineering skills
• Strong understanding of networking principles including experience in leafspine architecture design.
• Experience with Network Telemetry e.g OpenConfig gNMI gRPC
• A minimum of 3 of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center design
• Experience with routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols (Ethernet RSTP/ MSTP VLANs IP Routing TCP/IP OSPF BGP eBGP VxLAN Multicast Spanning Tree QoS)
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer Solutions Architect PreSales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
• Software development experience or previous experience building network automation using programming languages (Python Ansible etc) desired
• Excellent problemsolving and communication skills
• Knowledge of competitive products solutions and services

Compensation Information 

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $140000 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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Additional Information :

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer.  Arista makes all hiring and employmentrelated decisions in a nondiscriminatory manner without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal state or law law.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime