Company Description Who are we? Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking solutions for large data center, campus and routing environments. Our primary goal is delivering the highest quality networking software and solutions to our customers and we work hard to always advance our customers\xe2\x80\x99 best interest. We believe that each of our employees has an important contribution to make towards that goal and expect everyone to have quality and customer experience at the forefront of their minds.
Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) - Client to Cloud Networking
Full-time
What will you do? 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 Middle East. 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, start-up 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 are your responsibilities:
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
What do we expect:
Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone
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-Sales
Systems 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
Qualifications Who Are You? Requirements:
BS/CS/CE technical degree required
Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE)
You possess a minimum of 5+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center, Campus, and Wifi solutions.
Expert level experience with routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols.
You possess recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design.
Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS
Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape - Cisco, Juniper
Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI
Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired.
Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired
Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services
Ability to write white papers a plus
Fluency in English and Arabic is essential
You will also be currently residing in the UAE with current customer knowledge of the region
Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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