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 Norway. This is a contract position initially.
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, start-up 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
What do we expect:
- 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 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
Requirements:
- BS/CS/CE technical degree required
- Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE)
- You possess a minimum of 5+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center, Campus, and Wifi solutions.
- Expert level experience with routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols.
- You possess recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design.
- Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
- Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS
- Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape - Cisco, Juniper
- Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI
- Experience with SDN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) highly desired.
- Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired
- Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services
- Ability to write white papers a plus
- Fluency in English and Norwegian is essential
- You will also be currently residing in Norway with current customer knowledge of the region
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
This is a contract position initially.
