Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales)

Arista Networks; Croydon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading networking solutions provider in Croydon is seeking a Network Systems Engineer to join their sales team. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor, architecting innovative network solutions and collaborating with account managers to solve customer challenges. Ideal candidates should have strong networking skills, a technical degree, and excellent presentation capabilities. This role requires travel and a proactive sales attitude to drive new business.

Qualifications

• Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player.
• Sales attitude for driving new business.
• Ability to travel nationally or to neighboring countries.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Managers for customer challenges.
• Architect and design network solutions.
• Perform customer proof-of-concepts and network deployments.
• Create design guidelines and offer improvements.
• Lead technical responses to RFPs.
• Provide feedback to Product Management.
• Represent the company at industry events.

Skills

Technical degree

Networking design and implementation

Fluent in English

Excellent presentation skills

Routing and switching protocols knowledge

Sales attitude

Hands-on CLI experience

Experience with Python and Ansible

Education

Technical degree

Job description

Overview

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.

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.

Qualifications

• Highly‑motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone.
• 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 or Neighboring Country basis to support customers (if required).
• 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.