Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) - Cloud Networking

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 customers and prospects in Poland.

The 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.

This will be a contract role on a B2B basis.

What You'll Do

Deep technical, dynamic, startup-like environment

Be part of a small, highly motivated team and make a big impact with customers and within the company

Deep technical collaboration with technical colleagues in EMEA and worldwide

Continuous on-the-job learning through direct contact with engineering & development teams

Gaining in-depth hands-on experience with CLI, automation, scripting and tooling

Netops / Devops way of working

Flexible work environment (home office / flex office)

Significant responsibility and extensive decision power

Having Fun!

What are your 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

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Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone

This will be a contract role on a B2B basis

Fluent in Polish and English.

Preference will be given to candidates based within 1 hour of Warsaw.

Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business

Technical degree required

Networking design and implementation experience

Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols

Recent experience in Data Center, Routing 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)

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 bonus

Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired

Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible

Arista Cloud Engineering (ACE) Level 5 or higher Qualifications or equivalent Industry qualifications.