Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) - Cloud Networking
Who You'll Work With
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.
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 You'll Do
- 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.
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Qualifications
- Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone.
- Fluent in Norwegian and English.
- 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.
- Arista Cloud Engineering (ACE) Level 5 or higher Qualifications or equivalent Industry qualifications.