Description

Job Description

Who You'll Work With

We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a self-motivated Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer to provide pre-sales technical support for our customers and prospects in the United Kingdom.

The Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team. The main responsibility of the Systems Engineer is acting as a trusted advisor to our customers and prospects to identify opportunities, gather requirements and design creative solutions.

What will you gain:

  • Deep technical, dynamic, startup-like environment.
  • Be part of a small, highly motivated team and make a big impact with customers and within the company.
  • Deep technical collaboration with technical colleagues in EMEA and worldwide.
  • Continuous on-the-job learning through direct contact with engineering & development teams.
  • Gaining in-depth hands-on experience with CLI, automation, scripting and tooling.
  • Netops / Devops way of working.
  • Flexible work environment (home office / flex office).
  • Significant responsibility and extensive decision power.
  • Having Fun!

What You'll Do

  • You will proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges and conduct (white board) network architectural sessions and Arista product presentations.
  • You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional sales.
  • You will perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and features.
  • You will create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support.
  • Leading technical responses to RFP/RFQs.
  • Leading customer feature requests from customer requirements to implementation to deployment.
  • Provide (customer) feedback to Product Management and Development.
  • Represent Arista at industry events and conferences.
  • Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products and services.
  • Author white papers, blogs and articles on technology and products.

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Qualifications

  • Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone.
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken).
  • Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business.
  • Ability to travel on a National or Neighboring Country (if required) basis to support customers.
  • Technical degree required.
  • Networking design and implementation experience.
  • Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols.
  • Recent experience in Data Center, Routing and/or Campus network architecture designsExcellent presentation skills.
  • Deep knowledge of the relevant switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g.,Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation, etc).
  • Knowledge of Service Provider related technologies is a plus.
  • Knowledge of Campus related technologies is a plus.
  • Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape.
  • Work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferred.
  • Practical security deployment experience is a plus.
  • Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired.
  • Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible.
  • CCIE, JNCIE or Industry Equivalent certified

Education

Any Graduate