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Salary: USD 130,000 - 175,000 / annual
Arista Networks is seeking an accomplished Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to provide technical expertise and trusted advisory support to customers in the Financial Services and Trading vertical. You will be a critical component of the Arista Sales team, leveraging deep knowledge of mission-critical networks, routing, and switching technologies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Act as a trusted technical advisor for customers and partners, gathering requirements and identifying opportunities with existing and new accounts
- Own the pre- and post-sales technical relationship with assigned territory and customer base
- Build and maintain comprehensive knowledge of Arista technologies to support strategic customer enablement
- Facilitate technical training on Arista products, differentiators, solutions, and demonstrations
- Engage with key partners to develop service delivery proficiencies around Arista solutions
- Participate in Proof of Concepts (POCs) and on-site customer testing
- Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews with customer base
- Support on-site requirements at customer locations
- Respond to inbound customer questions, including research and lab testing of solutions
- Present technical content to organizations both virtually and in-person
- Create technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization
- Travel approximately 10% of the time
You will report to the Regional Engineering Manager and collaborate closely with Product Management, Software Development, and the world-class Arista TAC team. This role offers the opportunity to influence product development and strategic direction while working with industry experts and technical leaders.
Candidates must reside in the metro Chicago area.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum 5 years of networking design and implementation experience with focus on Data Center, Campus, Wi-Fi, and Security solutions, specifically working with Financial Services customers
- Strong presentation and selling skills with ability to communicate complex technical material
- Solid understanding of building successful relationships between equipment manufacturers and customer bases (executives, architects, engineers, operations teams)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, customer relations skills, and problem management skills; ability to remain calm and professional under pressure
- Experience creating technical materials (slides, white papers, battle cards, solution guides)
- Solid knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services
- Desired: Experience with Network Overlay and Virtualization
- Desired: Network automation experience using Python and Ansible
- Desired: Network Industry Certification including Arista Cloud Engineer (ACE) level 3-5
