Advisory/ Resident Systems Engineer - (Mandarin required)

Arista Networks•San Jose, CA

16d•$130,000 - $187,000•Onsite

About The Position

We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a creative, collaborative, self-motivated Advisory Systems Engineer to partner with our Account teams to provide onsite technical systems engineering support for one of our important customers in San Jose, California. The Advisory Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Account team with the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our customers to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers.

Requirements

Must be fluent in English and Mandarin
BS/CS/CE Business or Technical degree required; MBA/MS degree a strong plus
Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE, ACE-5,6,7)
You possess a minimum of 5+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center, Campus, and WIFI solutions
Strong presentation and selling skills including communication of complex technical material
Solid understanding and knowledge of how to build successful relationships between an equipment manufacturer and a customer base of executives, architects, engineers and operations teams
Good interpersonal skills, customer relations skills, and problem management skills, with the ability to stay calm and professional under pressure while working to strict deadlines
Experience creating technical material (slides, white papers, battle cards, solution guides, etc)
You possess recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design.
Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, EVPN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS
Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI

Nice To Haves

Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible HIGHLY desired.
Strong writing skills and ability to create informative white papers on technology and products is highly desired

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Arista Account Managers to gain an in-depth business and technological understanding of our enterprise clients and conduct whiteboard network architectural reviews to identify areas for improvement in network performance and efficiency
Conduct Arista product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus (including WIFI) networking solutions, CloudVision (Network Automation), Security (Network Detection), Endpoint Security and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions.
OWN the pre-sales and post-sales technical relationship with the assigned customers and channel partners
Build and maintain a deep, sound knowledge of all Arista technologies, in order to support and help in the enablement of channel partner engineers and customers’ engineers and architects
Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews with customer base
Support onsite requirements at the customer site
Facilitate technical training on Arista’s products, differentiators, solutions, and demos
Architect, design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.
Perform hands-on testing to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, Data Center and/or Campus network designs, and network deployments using new products and features.
Put together design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support
Partner with Sales Team to respond to RFP/RFQs
Author feature requests, business justifications, and provide feedback to the Product Management, Hardware Development and Software Development organizations
Represent Arista at industry events and conferences, including potential speaking roles.
Present technical content to worldwide organizations both virtually and in-person
Create technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization
Author white papers on technology and product