Sr. Network Engineer (Professional Services)

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

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $141,000 to $165,000

Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location. The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. US-based employees are also entitled to 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.

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