Full-Time Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)

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 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

• Proactively partner with Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges, conduct network architectural sessions and Arista product presentations.
• Architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to generate new sales.
• Perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and initial network deployments using state-of-the-art products and features.
• Create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customer networks.
• Lead technical responses to RFP/RFQs.
• Lead customer feature requests from requirement gathering to implementation and 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.
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken)
• Strong sales attitude, ability and passion to work proactively as a team.
• Ability to travel (if required) on a National or Neighboring Country basis to support customers.
• Technical degree.
• 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 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 (preferred)
• Knowledge of Campus related technologies (preferred)
• Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape.
• Work experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer (preferred)
• Practical security deployment experience (preferred).
• Recent hands-on CLI experience (highly desired).
• Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible.

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