Full-Time Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)
Arista Networks is hiring a remote Full-Time Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales). The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Amsterdam, Netherlands based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Who You'll Work WithWe 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 Netherlands.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
Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone
Fluent in Dutch and English
Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business
Technical degree required
Networking design and implementation experience
Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols
Recent experience in Data Center, Routing 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)
Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape
Work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-SalesSystems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
Practical security deployment experience is a bonus
Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired
Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible
Arista Cloud Engineering (ACE) Level 5 or higher Qualifications or equivalent Industry qualifications.