About this role
Who You’ll Work With
The POC team is a group of high caliber networking experts who are responsible for designing and demonstrating cutting-edge Arista Networks solutions. This is a customer-facing test role that drives new customer wins and introductions of new technologies to our worldwide customers.
What You’ll Do
Design ingenious network topologies and creative tests to prove advantages of Arista products, technologies and solutions to our largest customersBuild and configure complex test topologies and perform rigorous POC testsDemonstrate Arista's solutions to customers and provide test reportsCollaborate with industry-leading Systems Engineers to design network solutions for Arista's largest customersInnovate and develop testing and productivity improvement toolsImprove Arista product offerings and quality through feature enhancement proposals, bug reports, and engineering reviewsAuthor white papers and design guides on Arista products and technologies and POC methodologies BS CS/CE/EE. MS degree preferred5+ years of experience in software test, system test, proof of concept tests, network consulting, systems engineering, or advanced servicesCCIE certification is a plusIn-depth knowledge and experience in deploying, testing and troubleshooting: STP, LACP, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, BFD, NSF, MPLS, IGMP, PIM SM/SSM, ACL, QoS and HAExperience in network virtualization technologies such as VXLAN, OpenStack, etc.Experience in integrating firewalls, load balancers, and virtualization controllers in virtualized networksExperience in routing & switching hardware platform testsExperience with IXIA or Spirent for traffic generation and protocol emulationExperience in server virtualization and Linux toolsExperience in scripting using Python, Tcl, Perl, etc.Strong written and verbal communication skillsAbility to operate with a high degree of independence and manage projectsEnjoy cross-functional collaboration and shared responsibility in small team settingsEnjoy on the job learning of new technologies