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 Norway. 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. What You'll Do 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. #LI-ES1 Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone. Fluent in Norwegian and English.  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.