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Network Advanced Services Engineer
| Company | Arista Networks |
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| Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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| Salary | $124000 – $173000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Ability to communicate across all functions within Arista, as well as with clients and partners.
- 5+ years’ working experience with network technologies including network design and deployments of Campus and Data Center networks.
- 5+ years’ minimum experience with Cisco-based technologies focusing on infrastructure and voice.
- Demonstrated experience in technical post-sales, as either a Network Consulting Engineer or as an Advanced Systems (AS) Engineer preferred.
- Experience with Cisco enterprise routing/switching within large data center enterprise customers (Catalyst, Nexus, ASR).
- Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, EVPN, IP routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, Multicast, QoS, WAN, Network Observability.
- Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI.
- Advanced skills with creating documentation and presentations (Office/GSuite), with the ability to write white papers as a plus.
- Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Provide advanced post-sales engineering support for Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Campus networking deployments for our enterprise and commercial customers.
- Review customer network designs for an EVPN/VxLAN Leaf-Spine architecture and make recommendations for deployment and operational efficiency.
- Migrate or interconnect to/from Cisco, Juniper, and other vendors to Arista infrastructure.
- Assist with configuration build-outs including creating network provisioning.
- Automation using Python and tools such as Ansible.
- Assist with proof of concepts (POC) and in-depth testing to validate design scenarios.
- Provide interface between TAC, our internal development teams, and the customer.
- Become a Trusted Advisor to our customers, providing advice regarding architectural questions, product prerequisites, product features, etc.
- Translate complex business requirements into Leaf-Spine Network architectures.
- Assist Pre-Sales Engineer and Account Executives with designing Network solutions.
- Attend key partner events, training sessions, and provide ongoing training with the customer teams globally.
- Understand the client’s business objectives and technical needs.
- Meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for sales and clients.
- Maintain professional relationships with teammates, partners, and clients.
- Some travel may be required within assigned territory.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in Perl, Python, Scripting for creating network automation is desired.
- Knowledge of leaf-spine architectures is highly desired.
- Network Industry Certification preferred, such as ACE-L4, ACE-L6, ACE-L7, and others.
