Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) - Cloud Networking

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 Nordics, in partyoicualr Norway and Denmark.

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 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

Who Are You?                                                                                                                       

• 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 and/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

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

• Fluent and English speaking applicants only will be eligible for this role and fluency in Norwegian and/or Danish. 

• You will also be currently residing in Denmark with current customer knowledge of the Nordic region. We are unable to offer relocation.