POC Engineer

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Design and conduct rigorous POC tests for Arista's advanced networking solutions, collaborating with top systems engineers to enhance product offerings.

Who You’ll Work With

The POC team is a group of high caliber networking experts who are responsible for designing and demonstrating cutting-edge Arista Networks solutions. This is a customer-facing test role that drives new customer wins and introductions of new technologies to our worldwide customers.

What You’ll Do

  • Design ingenious network topologies and creative tests to prove advantages of Arista products, technologies and solutions to our largest customers
  • Build and configure complex test topologies and perform rigorous POC tests
  • Demonstrate Arista's solutions to customers and provide test reports
  • Collaborate with industry-leading Systems Engineers to design network solutions for Arista's largest customers
  • Innovate and develop testing and productivity improvement tools
  • Improve Arista product offerings and quality through feature enhancement proposals, bug reports, and engineering reviews
  • Author white papers and design guides on Arista products and technologies and POC methodologies
  • BS CS/CE/EE. MS degree preferred
  • 5+ years of experience in software test, system test, proof of concept testsnetwork consulting, systems engineering, or advanced services
  • CCIE certification is a plus
  • In-depth knowledge and experience in deploying, testing and troubleshooting: STP, LACP, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, BFD, NSF, MPLS, IGMP, PIM SM/SSM, ACL, QoS and HA
  • Experience in network virtualization technologies such as VXLAN, OpenStack, etc.
  • Experience in integrating firewalls, load balancers, and virtualization controllers in virtualized networks
  • Experience in routing & switching hardware platform tests
  • Experience with IXIA or Spirent for traffic generation and protocol emulation
  • Experience in server virtualization and Linux tools
  • Experience in scripting using Python, Tcl, Perl, etc.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to operate with a high degree of independence and manage projects
  • Enjoy cross-functional collaboration and shared responsibility in small team settings
  • Enjoy on the job learning of new technologies

Arista Networks is the leader in software driven networking solutions for today’s largest Data Center (DC), Cloud, Internet/WAN, Service Provider (SP) and Campus environments. Arista has over 7500 customers ranging from the largest cloud providers, to healthcare, government, carrier, finance, education, and production web/SaaS companies. Arista's products are the foundation underpinning much of modern society's operations.Arista has ambitious plans and an unprecedented opportunity for growth and we are looking for many more engineers and designers to join us in building and innovating the world's networks. Arista is a profitable, publicly quoted company with revenues of over $2B with a culture of invention, quality, respect, and fun.

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