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 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
You will proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges and conduct (white board) network architectural sessions and Arista product presentationsYou will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional salesYou will perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and featuresYou will create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they supportLeading technical responses to RFP/RFQsLeading customer feature requests from customer requirements to implementation to deploymentProvide (customer) feedback to Product Management and DevelopmentRepresent Arista at industry events and conferencesKeep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products and servicesAuthor white papers, blogs and articles on technology and productsQualifications
Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zoneFluent 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 customersTechnical degree requiredNetworking design and implementation experiencePractical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols Recent experience in Data Center, Routing and/or Campus network architecture designsExcellent presentation skillsDeep 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 plusKnowledge of Campus related technologies is a plusGood understanding of the competitor technology landscape Work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferredPractical security deployment experience is a plusRecent hands-on CLI experience highly desiredExperience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible