The Arista Professional Services Engineer role helps customers choose
the architecture for the business outcome. They also lead a team of PS
through the deployment lifecycle and oversee the different phases of t
project starting with design all the way through implementation,
migration and enabling operational capabilities. This ensures a seamles
transition for customers from initial exposure to being able to operate
and realize tangible business outcomes from their network
infrastructure.
The Arista PS Engineer also leverages the collective knowledge of the
wider Arista Professional Services practice and has direct access to Aris
Engineering teams. The Professional Services Engineer will be able to
bring in processes, procedures and technical artifacts that help Arista
Customers to design and deploy new infrastructure successfully, with
proven methodologies to migrate from legacy vendors.
Key Responsibilities
· Accountable for architectural guidance and engineering direction
across the solution.
· Consult on design related aspects to delivery, test and migration.
· Analyse customer landscape to develop technical and business
requirements
· Work with Sales and other verticals within Arista and Customer
organization.
· Train other professional services engineers on new design topologi
and Technologies.
· Must exceed customer expectation and display excellency in projec
execution on high impact projects
· Use the requirements to design the network that best meets the
tactical needs of the customer environment.
· Assist in developing High- and Low-Level Design documents based
gathered requirements that capture the design criteria and as-built
information that can be used as a reference/blueprint for future
deployments.
· Review test plans for the purpose of validating newly deployed Aris
networks and to certify that the network is ready to carry production
traffic.
· Participate in critical migration and integration activities.
· Perform Knowledge Transfer Training on Arista network designs,
platforms, and features to Arista Professional Services customers.
· Develop professional relationships with customers by being a trust
advisor and working collaboratively.
· Assist Project Management in developing project plans to track
deployment project task execution and timelines and to establish
communication cadence with customers.
Technical Capabilities:
· Specialization in Design and Deployment of Industry Leading
Networking Solutions.
· Brings on board experience of delivering several projects using Aris
Technology and integration with industry standard 3rd party systems
successfully.
· Ability to develop accurate and meaningful requirements.
· High level and low-level design experience for Leaf Spine
infrastructure.
· Advanced network protocol knowledge, especially VXLAN, EVPN,
MPLS and Segment Routing.
· Automation with Ansible and Terraform
· Experience of delivering technical and operational training to
customers
Qualifications, skills and experience:
· 10+ years of industry experience focused on IP networks
· Arista EOS and Cloud Vision experience
· Led and delivered several high-stake projects including greenfield
implementations, complex migrations and integration efforts.
