Network 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 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

Arista Networks is seeking an accomplished PreSales Network Systems Engineer who will leverage their technical expertise of mission critical networks and routing and switching to provide technical systems engineering support to expand the Arista brand for our customers. 

Responsibilities:

• The PreSales Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team with the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our customers and partners to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers.
• Own the pre and postsales technical relationship with the assigned territory and customer base
• Build and maintain a deep sound knowledge of all Arista technologies in order to support and help in the enablement of strategic customers
• Facilitate technical training on Aristas products differentiators solutions and demos
• Engage with key partners to develop proficiencies in delivering services around Aristas solution set
• Participate in the execution of Proof of Concepts (POCs) and onsite customer testing
• Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews with customer base
• Support onsite requirements at the customer site
• Respond to inbound questions from the customers including research and lab testing of solutions
• Present technical content to worldwide organizations both virtually and inperson
• Create technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization
• Travel expectations is approximately 10%

Qualifications :

You are a driven PreSales Systems Engineer or Network Architect with a passion for acting as a technical trusted advisor for your customers. You possess indepth technical expertise within routing and switching including network architecture and design experience. 

• Minimum of 5 years of networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center Campus WIFI  and Security solutions
• Strong presentation and selling skills including communication of complex technical material
• Solid understanding and knowledge of how to build successful relationships between an equipment manufacturer and a customer base of executives architects engineers and operations teams
• Good interpersonal skills customer relations skills and problem management skills with the ability to stay calm and professional under pressure while working to strict deadlines
• Experience creating technical material (slides white papers battle cards solution guides etc)
• Solid knowledge of competitive products solutions and services
• Experience with Network Overlay and Virtualization  is highly desired
• Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired
• Network Industry Certification including Arista Cloud Engineer (ACE) level 35 desired. 

Compensation Information:

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $112000 to $160000. 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