Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) - DV Cleared

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 Public Sector customers and prospects in the United Kingdom. The Network 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. #LI-ES1 - Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone. - Posses an active Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. - Fluent in English (written and spoken). - Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business. - Ability to travel on a National basis to support customers. - 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). - Knowledge of Service Provider related technologies is a plus. - Knowledge of Campus related technologies is a plus. - 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 plus. - Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired. - Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible. - CCIE, JNCIE or Industry Equivalent certified.