Network Systems Engineer - Pre-Sales

November 7

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Arista Networks

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

1001 - 5000

💰 $2.6M Post-IPO Debt on 2015-05

Description

• Provide pre-sales technical support for customers and prospects in Germany • Act as a trusted advisor to identify opportunities, gather requirements and design creative solutions • Partner with Arista Account Managers to solve customer challenges • Conduct network architectural sessions and product presentations • Architect, design and propose network and security solutions • Perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and network deployments • Create design guidelines and recommend network improvements • Lead technical responses to RFP/RFQs • 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