Network Solutions Architect - Service Provider
Network Solutions Architect - Service Provider
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Job Description
Who Youll Work With
When you join Arista as part of the Service Provider Sales Engineering and Solutions Architect team youre not just stepping into a role; youre becoming part of a team of industry experts and technical leaders. Reporting to the Engineering Director youll be working alongside some of the most skilled 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 Network Solutions Architect reporting to our Service Provider organization. In this role you will partner with our Account Managers to provide presales technical systems engineering support for our Service Provider customers. Moreover you will also work on participating in key industry conferences evangelizing Arista Network technologies to the Service Provider customers.
The Network Solutions Architect 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 Service Provider customers.
- You will partner with the Arista Account Managers to understand Service Provider pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews in addition to conducting product presentations of Aristas Open Networking Data Center Service Provider Edge 5G Edge Cloud Grade Routing and our Cloud Vision platform (Network Automation)
- You will architect design and propose Aristas high performance Data Center & Service Provider solutions using LeafSpine architectures (VxLAN EVPN and BGP) and Open IP/MPLS 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
- Participate in Key Industry Events
- Work with broader Marketing and PLM organization to generate key collateral for Service Providers
Qualifications :
- BS/CS/CE technical degree required
- Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S) JNCIE)
- You possess a minimum of 15 of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on high performance Service Provider networks and Data Centers.
- Expert level experience with routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols.
- You possess recent experience in LeafSpine architecture design.
- Previous experience designing deploying and configuring large scale MPLS based networks.
- Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer Solutions Architect PreSales SE or Network Architect preferred
- Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet RSTP/ MSTP VLANs IP Routing TCP/IP OSPF BGP eBGP VxLAN MPLS 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
- Expert communication and presentation skills
Compensation Information
The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $110000 to $185000 across the US. 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 :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Key Skills
- Load Balancing
- Routing Protocols
- Network Engineering
- BGP
- LAN
- Computer Networking
- IPsec
- OSPF
- Cisco ASA
- Juniper
- MPLS
- Network Architecture
