Technical Solutions Engineer - NDO

Who You’ll Work With 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. What You’ll Do 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. 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. 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. 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 Compensation Information The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $90,000 to $150,000.  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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)