Professional Services Engineer - Federal

Who Youll Work With

This Professional Services role within Arista takes Federal client engagements from initial design through implementation and migration and continues on to provide in life operational support. This ensures a seamless transition for customers from initial exposure to full operational capability. As a critical member of the Arista Services Team you will act as a trusted advisor to provide full Design and Deployment support for our Federal (DoD Intelligence Community Pentagon and Civilian Agencies) customers in the area.

What Youll Do

• Analyze customer environments to gather and develop technical requirements for the purpose of designing a network to be deployed.
• Develop and provide designs in line with requirements. Write High and Low Level Design documents based on gathered requirements for guidance and reference during and after Arista network deployment.
• Implementation and migration planning detail and support.
• Write and execute test plans for the purpose of validating newly deployed Arista networks once the deployment is complete in order to ensure new infrastructures are capable of carrying production network traffic.
• Work with customers to plan write and execute Methods of Procedure documents outlining steps to seamlessly migrate production network traffic from legacy infrastructure to the newly deployed Arista Network Fabric.
• Perform Knowledge Transfer training on Arista network designs platforms and features to Arista Professional Services customers.
• Ongoing operational support to the customer.
• Develop professional relationships with customers to assist them with Arista solution deployment projects.
• Assist project management in developing project plans to track deployment project task execution communication cadence with customers and timelines.
• Occasional travel to customer locations required.

Qualifications :

• Federal Top Secret Clearance or higher
• Experience working with Arista Federal Partners and other government entities and organizations
• Preferred physical location in the Washington D.C. and surrounding Virginia area or ability to travel to there as needed
• Specializing in design and deployment of industryleading networking solutions
• Ability to discover collaborate and develop accurate and meaningful requirements
• High level and low level design experience for Spine & Leaf infrastructure along with extensive documentation 
• Advanced network protocol knowledge especially BGP EVPN VXLAN and SR
• Linux operating system and scripting knowledge
• Experience of delivering technical and operational training to customers
• Basic/Advanced Python programming skills
• 10 years of industry experience focused on IP networks
• Hands on experience delivering several projects including greenfield implementations integration efforts and complete migrations
• A computer science (or similar) degree
• Prior Arista Hardware or EOS experience
• CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications/ equivalents security certifications such as CISSP/equivalents Arista Cloud Engineer (ACE) level 3 7 desired
• Excellent written and verbal skills

Compensation Information: 

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $117000 to $192000 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