Network Advanced Services Engineer at Arista Networks

Job Description

Network Advanced Services Engineer at Arista Networks

Company Description

Arista Networks – Global Market Leader in cloud networking and mission critical Data Center and Campus Solutions

Job Description

Arista seeks an Advanced Services Engineer to provide advanced post-sales support, guidance, and assistance to account teams to address specific customer needs. In this position, you will be working as a technology expert in the Routing & Switching, Wi-Fi and Network Packet Broker space to design, implement, and support (troubleshoot) our Datacenter and Campus Networking deployments within a number of customer infrastructures. The ideal candidate will also have a level of comfort communicating across all functions within Arista, as well as with clients and partners.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• You will provide advanced post-sales engineering support for Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Campus networking deployments for our enterprise and commercial customers

• Review customer network designs for an EVPN, VxLAN, leaf-spine architecture and make recommendations for deployment

• Assist customers in deploying and maintaining Arista’s Network Packet Broker solutions

• Migrate or interconnect to/from Cisco, Juniper, and other vendors to Arista infrastructure

• Assist with configuration build-outs including creating network provisioning automation using Python and tools such as Chef or Ansible

• Assist with implementation and change controls

• You will assist with proof of concepts (POC) and in-depth testing to validate design scenario

• Provide bug scrubs and code recommendations

• Provide interface to TAC and internal development teams and the customer

• You will provide customer advice regarding architectural questions, product prerequisites, product features, etc.

• Translate complex business requirements into Leaf-Spine Network solutions

• Assist Pre-Sales Engineer and Account Executives with designing Network solutions

• Establish and maintaining strong relationships with key partners

•  Attend key partner events, training sessions, and provide ongoing training with the customer teams globally

• Continue training to maintain expertise

• Ability to understand the client’s business objectives and technical needs

• Ability to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for sales and clients

• Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment

• Maintain professional relationships with teammates, partners, and clients

• Some travel may be required within assigned territory

Qualifications

Who Are You?

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE)

• 5+ years’ working experience with network technologies including network design and deployments of Campus and Data Center networks. Knowledge of leaf-spine architectures highly desired. 

• 5+ years’ minimum experience with Cisco-based technologies focusing on infrastructure and voice

• Demonstrated experience in technical post-sales, as either a Network Consulting Engineer or as an Advanced Systems (AS) Engineer preferred

• Experience with Cisco enterprise routing/switching within large data center enterprise customers (Catalyst, Nexus, ASR)

• Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, EVPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, Multicast, QoS, Wi-Fi, NPB

• Expertise in at least one area of Data Center related technologies – Openstack, SDN, NFV, Load Balancers, Virtualization, Linux tools

• Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI

• Ability to write white papers a plus

• Background in Perl, Python, Scripting for creating network automation is highly desired

• Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills

• Excellent written skills and the ability to do related documentation and ticket tracking of opportunities/meeting follow-up

Desirable:

• NV1/NV2 clearance