Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) - Cloud Networking

Arista Networks
Oslo, OsloPosted 4 March 2026

Job Description

<p><strong>Who You'll Work With</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing &amp; Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional sales.</li><li>You will perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and features.</li><li>You will create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support.</li><li>Leading technical responses to RFP/RFQs.</li><li>Leading customer feature requests from customer requirements to implementation to deployment.</li><li>Provide (customer) feedback to Product Management and Development.</li><li>Represent Arista at industry events and conferences.</li><li>Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products and services.</li><li>Author white papers, blogs and articles on technology and products.</li></ul><p><strong>#LI-ES1</strong></p> <ul><li>Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone.</li><li>Fluent in Norwegian and English.&#xa0;</li><li>Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business.</li><li>Technical degree required.</li><li>Networking design and implementation experience.</li><li>Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols.</li><li>Recent experience in Data Center, Routing or Campus network architecture designs.</li><li>Excellent presentation skills.</li><li>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).</li><li>Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape.</li><li>Work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales.</li><li>Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferred.</li><li>Practical security deployment experience is a bonus.</li><li>Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired.</li><li>Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible.</li><li>Arista Cloud Engineering (ACE)&#xa0;Level 5 or higher Qualifications or equivalent Industry qualifications.</li></ul>