Network Systems Engineer - Pre-Sales

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Arista Networks

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Cloud Computing • Virtualization • Big Data Clusters • High Performance Computing

1001 - 5000

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 Germany. • 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 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.

Requirements

• Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone. • Fluent in German and 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 designs. • Excellent 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.