Arista Networks

Company Description
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $9 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience. Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.
At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.
Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.
 Job Description
Who You'll Work With
When you join Arista as part of the Sales Engineering team, you're not just stepping into a role, you're becoming part of a team of industry experts and technical leaders. Typically reporting to the System Engineering Manager, you'll be working alongside some of the most skilled field engineers in the industry. Our team prides itself on not just understanding the technology but also the business impact and aligning our solutions with the larger goals of our clients. In collaboration with our Product Management and Software Development teams, you will play a pivotal role in steering product developments, offerings, and strategic direction to best serve our customers and prospects. Supported by the expertise of our world class Arista TAC, cutting-edge proof-of-concept resources, and support of the executive team, you are well-positioned to lead and innovate within the industry.
What You’ll Do
We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a collaborative, self-motivated Senior Systems Engineer to partner with our Account teams to provide pre-sales technical systems engineering support for our enterprise/commercial customers in the Western India area.
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<li>The Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team with the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our customers to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers.</li>
<li>You will partner with the Arista Account Managers to understand customer pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews in addition to conducting Arista product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Centre and Cognitive Campus (including Wi-fi) networking solutions, CloudVision (Network Automation), Security (Network Detection &amp; Response), Endpoint Security and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions.</li>
<li>You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Centre &amp; Campus network solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.</li>
<li>Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, Data Centre and/or Campus network designs, and network deployments using new products and features</li>
<li>Put together design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support</li>
<li>Partner with Sales Team to respond to RFP/RFQs</li>
<li>Provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering</li>
<li>Represent Arista at SDN and Open Networking industry events and conferences</li>
<li>Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products, and services</li>
<li>Author white papers on technology and product.</li>
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 Qualifications 
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<li>BE/BS/CS/CE technical degree required</li>
<li>Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&amp;S), JNCIE)</li>
<li>You possess a minimum of 10+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Centre and Campus networks.</li>
<li>You possess expert level expertise in routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols (Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Aruba)</li>
<li>Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred</li>
<li>Previous experience with network overlays preferred.</li>
<li>Expert knowledge in three or more of the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, EVPN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS</li>
<li>Expert-level knowledge of industry-standard CLI</li>
<li>Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired.</li>
<li>Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired.</li>
<li>Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services</li>
<li>Ability to write white papers a plus.</li>
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Additional Information
Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.
We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.
Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&amp;D centers equal in stature.
Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.

Senior Systems Engineer (Pre Sales)

Senior Systems Engineer (Pre Sales)

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