Network Systems Engineer; Pre-Sales

Network Systems Engineer (Pre‑Sales) at Arista Networks

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data‑driven, client‑to‑cloud networking for large data centre, campus, and routing environments. We pursue innovation relentlessly, leveraging advances in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software‑defined networking to give clients a competitive edge. Our solutions are designed to meet current demands and anticipate future challenges.

We value diversity of thought and perspective, fostering an inclusive environment where every employee feels welcome. Our commitment to excellence has earned awards such as Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work‑Life Balance.

We are experiencing tremendous growth and need a self‑motivated Pre‑Sales Network Systems Engineer to support customers and prospects in Germany. The Systems Engineer will act as a trusted advisor, identifying opportunities, gathering requirements, and designing creative solutions.

• Partner proactively with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges, conducting white‑board network architecture sessions and product presentations.
• Architect, design, and propose Arista Data Center, Routing, Campus network, and security solutions to generate new or additional sales.
• Perform hands‑on customer proof‑of‑concepts and initial network deployments using state‑of‑the‑art products and features.
• Create design guidelines and recommend network improvements to customers.
• Lead technical responses to RFPs/RFQs.
• Lead customer feature requests from 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.

• Highly motivated, passionate, technical, proactive, and flexible team player willing to step out of their comfort zone.
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken).
• Sales attitude: ability and passion to work proactively as a team to drive new business.
• Willingness to travel nationally or to neighboring countries if required.
• Technical degree required.
• Networking design and implementation experience.
• Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols.
• Recent experience in Data Center, Routing and/or Campus network architecture designs.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Deep knowledge of switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g., Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation).
• Knowledge of Service Provider technologies is a plus.
• Knowledge of Campus technologies is a plus.
• Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape.
• Preferred work experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre‑Sales Systems Engineer, or Network Consulting Engineer.
• Practical security deployment experience is a plus.
• Recent hands‑on CLI experience highly desired.
• Experience and/or interest in learning Net Ops/Dev Ops using tools such as Python and Ansible.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Computer Networking

Germany (various cities)