Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)

Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)

Job description

Job 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 the United Kingdom.

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

Qualifications

- Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone
- Fluent in 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 designsExcellent presentation skills
- Deep knowledge of the relevant switching and routing protocols and technologies (,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
- CCIE, JNCIE or Industry Equivalent certified

▶️ Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)
🖊️ Arista Networks
📍 London