Professional Services Engineer

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 deliver ultra low latency, high availability, automated analytics and secure network solutions.

Our culture is one that is founded on our core key values which resonate across all of our employee and include respect, integrity, teamwork, innovation, passion, trust and quality. 

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
● 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 as and when required.

Qualifications

Technical Capabilities
● 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
● Arista EOS and CloudVision experience
● Led and delivered several projects including greenfield implementations, complex
migrations and integration efforts.
● A computer science (or similar) degree
● CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications/ equivalents, security certifications such as
CISSP/equivalents
● Excellent written and verbal skills
 

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $117,000 to $185,000. The actual salary offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and US location. The salary range provided reflects the base salary and in addition may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses, commissions, equity, and benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

Additional Information

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