Strategic Pre-Sales Network Engineer — Financial Services

Arista Networks, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Arista Networks in the Chicago area seeks a Pre‑Sales Network Systems Engineer to apply deep routing/switching expertise to expand the Arista brand for financial services and trading verticals. You will be a trusted advisor, work with product/software teams, and enable customers with POCs, demos, and compelling technical material.

You will collaborate with sales, engineering, and management to align solutions with client goals, develop training programs, and present findings to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and implementing networking for data center, campus, Wi‑Fi, and security in financial services
• Strong presentation and selling skills; ability to communicate complex material clearly
• Ability to build relationships between equipment manufacturers and executives, architects, engineers and ops teams
• Interpersonal, customer relations and problem management skills under pressure and deadlines
• Experience creating technical materials (slides, white papers, battle cards, guides)
• Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services; experience with network overlay/virtualization
• Experience with network automation using Python and Ansible; ACE certification desired

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers
• Own pre- and post-sales technical relationships with the assigned territory and customer base
• Maintain deep knowledge of Arista technologies to support and enable strategic customers
• Facilitate technical training on Arista products, differentiators, solutions and demos
• Engage with partners to develop capabilities for delivering Arista solutions
• Participate in PoCs and on-site testing with customers
• Execute technical QBRs with the customer base
• Support onsite customer requirements
• Respond to inbound questions with research and lab testing of solutions
• Present technical content to worldwide organizations both virtually and in-person
• Create technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization
• Travel approximately 10%

Skills

Networking design

Presentation & selling

Customer relationships

Problem solving

Technical materials creation

Competitive analysis

Network Overlay & Virtualization

Python & Ansible

Education

ACE Certification

Tools

Python

Ansible

Job description

Arista Networks in the Chicago area seeks a Pre‑Sales Network Systems Engineer to apply deep routing/switching expertise to expand the Arista brand for financial services and trading verticals. You will be a trusted advisor, work with product/software teams, and enable customers with POCs, demos, and compelling technical material.

You will collaborate with sales, engineering, and management to align solutions with client goals, develop training programs, and present findings to stakeholders.