• Partner with Arista Account Managers to understand Service Provider pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews in addition to conducting product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center, Service Provider Edge, 5G Edge, Cloud Grade Routing and our Cloud Vision platform (Network Automation).
• Architect, design and propose Arista's high performance Data Center & Service Provider solutions using Leaf-Spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN and BGP) and Open IP/MPLS to capture additional sales.
• Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, Data Center and/or Campus network designs, and network deployments using new products and features.
• Put together design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support.
• Partner with Sales Team to respond to RFP/RFQs.
• Provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering.
• Represent Arista at SDN and Open Networking industry events and conferences.
• Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products, and services.
• Author white papers on technology and product.
• Participate in Key Industry Events.
• Work with broader Marketing and PLM organization to generate key collateral for Service Providers.

Required Qualifications

• BS/CS/CE technical degree required.
• Minimum of 15+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on high performance Service Provider networks and Data Centers.
• Expert level experience with routing and switching including L2/L3 protocols.
• Recent experience in Leaf-Spine architecture design.
• Previous experience designing, deploying and configuring large scale MPLS based networks.
• Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, MPLS, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS.
• Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI.

Preferred Qualifications

• Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g., CCIE (R&S), JNCIE).
• Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Architect preferred.
• Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape - Cisco, Juniper.
• 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.
• Expert communication and presentation skills.

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.