Sr. Network Engineer (Professional Services)

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in Cognitive Cloud Networking for mission critical data center and campus environments. Our award winning open source platforms change the way that organizations build, deploy and operate next generation networks.  

A lot of companies pay lip service to company values. At Arista, we take them seriously. We believe that adherence to our core values is not only the right thing to do, but also the most reliable path to business success. We value doing the right thing for our customers and employees. We value decentralized control; empowering employees to do the right thing and make great decisions. And finally, we believe each person has a unique contribution to make. These guiding principles inform every aspect of our business.

Job Description

The Professional Services role within Arista takes client engagements from initial design through implementation and migration and continues on to provide in life operational support. This ensures a seamless transition for customers from initial exposure to full operational capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze customer situation to develop requirements and gather technical requirements for the purpose of designing a network to be deployed.
• Develop and provide designs in line with requirements. Write High and Low Level Design documents based on gathered requirements for guidance and reference during and after Arista network deployment
• Implementation and migration planning detail and support
• Write and execute test plans for purpose of validating newly deployed Arista networks once the deployment is complete in order to ensure new infrastructures are capable of carrying production network traffic.  
• Work with customers to plan, write, and execute Methods of Procedure documents outlining steps to seamlessly migrate production network traffic from legacy infrastructure to the newly deployed Arista Network Fabric.
• Perform Knowledge Transfer training on Arista network designs, platforms, and features to Arista Professional Services customers.
• Ongoing operational support to the customer
• Develop professional relationships with customers to assist them with Arista solution deployment projects.
• Assist project management in developing project plans to track deployment project task execution, communication cadence with customers, and timelines.
• Travel to customer locations required.

Qualifications

• Specializing in design and deployment of industry-leading networking solutions.
• Ability to develop accurate and meaningful requirements.
• High level and low level design experience for Spine & Leaf infrastructure.
• Advanced network protocol knowledge, especially BGP, EVPN, VXLAN and SR.
• Linux operating system and scripting knowledge.
• Experience of delivering technical and operational training to customers
• Basic/Advanced Python programming skills
• 10+ years of industry experience focused on IP networks
• Led and delivered several projects including greenfield implementations, complete migrations and integration efforts.
• A computer science (or similar) degree
• Prior Arista Hardware or EOS experience
• CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications/ equivalents, security certifications such as CISSP/equivalents
• Excellent written and verbal skills

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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