Technical Solutions Engineer - NDO
About The Position
Are you a top-tier Technical Support Engineer with a passion for solving customer problems? At Arista, we are obsessed with making our customers successful and believe that giving our customers direct access to a top-level engineer who thrives on solving complex problems, helps streamline the support process and nurture customer success. We are seeking world-class technical solutions engineers (TSE) to come join our team, to help support our products and solutions. A TSE at Arista is equivalent to a Tier 3 TAC or Escalation Engineer in most support organizations. We drive the success of our customers through passion and teamwork and via ensuring quick response times. You will work with a diverse, multicultural team of top-notch engineers who act as our customers’ champions. You will also work closely with members of software/hardware engineering, product management, customer engineering and sales teams. The team culture is one of collaboration among highly technical individuals, as we work as One Team to deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate possesses the ability to troubleshoot complex and dynamic customer environments while balancing the communications needs of each case. A strong analytical mind is required, as is the ability to triage. As we are continually releasing new features and products, a high aptitude for both learning and teaching are required. Our engineers work closely with other members of Customer Engineering as well as both Software and Hardware development - both in diagnosing problems as well as communicating them in multiple technical contexts. Thus, excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must, as is a collaborative approach.
Requirements
- Minimum of 1-5 years hands-on experience and a combination of designing, deploying, configuring, supporting, troubleshooting, debugging, and/or administering network protocols and/or technologies.
- Expert technical knowledge is required in several of the following areas: Network management platforms, DevOps platforms, APIs (JSON, gRPC, curl/Postman/requests etc.), scripting (Python, Bash), Containers (Kubernetes, Docker), Linux, Ansible, KVM
- General knowledge is preferred in the following areas: Ethernet, VLANs, IP routing, TCP/IP, Multicast, Protocols (BGP, ISIS, OSPF, PIM, IGMP; etc.).
- Working experience with proprietary Server virtualization solutions is highly desired (VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, etc)
- Experience with network troubleshooting tools such as Tcpdump and Wireshark are highly desired.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with any or some of the following is a plus
- Overlay platforms VMWare NSX, Cisco ACI
- Terraform ; Public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Golang ; Prometheus/Grafana ; SSO (OIDC and SAML)
- Git (branches, commits, etc), GitHub/GitLab
- Arista Validated Design
Responsibilities
- Post-sales technical support for Arista products focusing on Cloudvision (CVP / CVaaS).
- Respond to customer product inquiries via telephone or email.
- Resolve customer concerns raised during installation, operation, and maintenance as well as product application or compatibility inquiries.
- Troubleshoot problems with hardware/software applications and recommend corrective action.
- Recreate customer network issues in a dedicated lab environment (as needed).
- Document customer communication and recurring technical issues to support product quality programs and product development.
- Interpersonal skills, product knowledge/expertise are critical to responding to daily, customer-centric activities.
Benefits
- US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
