Professional Services Engineer

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $7 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience.  Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Who You’ll Work With

In this Professional Services role, you will work closely with various stakeholders including clients’ network and IT teams, Arista's internal engineering and support teams, project managers, and technical leadership. Collaboration extends to design and deployment engineers, operations personnel, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless implementation, migration, and support of Arista network solutions. You will also interact directly with customer technical staff for requirement gathering, design validation, knowledge transfer, and training, while coordinating with Arista’s technical support and product teams to deliver optimized, scalable, and production-ready network infrastructures.

What You’ll Do

• Analyze customer situation to develop requirements 
• Gather technical requirements for the purpose of designing a network to be deployed.
• Develop and provide designs in line with requirements 
• Write High and Low Level Design documents based on gathered requirements for  guidance and reference during and after Arista network deployment 
• Fabric Design, discussion, and review with client to meet their requirement
• Implementation and migration planning detail and support 
• Write and execute test plans for the purpose of validating newly deployed Arista networks  once the deployment is complete in order to ensure new infrastructures are capable of  carrying production network traffic.
• Work with customers to plan, write, and execute Methods of Procedure documents  outlining steps to seamlessly migrate production network traffic from legacy infrastructure  to the newly deployed Arista Network Fabric.
• Perform Knowledge Transfer Training on Arista network Designs, Platforms, and Features  to Arista Professional Services customers. 
• Assist project Management in developing project plans to track deployment project task  execution, communication cadence with customers, and timelines.
• Travel to customer locations as and when required.  

Technical Capabilities 

• Specializing in Design and Deployment of Industry Leading Networking Solutions.
• Ability to develop accurate and meaningful requirements. 
• High level and low level design experience for Spine leaf infrastructure.
• Strong exposure to packet capture level troubleshooting. 
• Proven track record of successful and timely delivery of assigned tasks.
• Technical Support experience in networking domain with Experience on Arista Equipment  have added advantage 
• Experience in Spine-leaf Architect (L2LS/L3LS), MLAG, VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, OSPF and  other Networking protocols and concepts
• For Architect Role: In-depth knowledge of OSPF, ISIS, BGP, L2 Technologies, Multicast  Experience in DC or SP or Enterprise level network architecture Added Technologies  advantage 
• L2 Technologies (STP, PVST, MSTP, RSTP, EtherChanel) 
• Troubleshooting Network issues, Provisioning of new services on the network.
• Understanding of MPLS and SP core network would be added advantage (for Architect  role) 
• Performing Upgrades e.g., OS patch, vulnerability for Arista Devices 
• Module Configurations and optimizations Induction of New Arista Switches into running  fabric 
• Perform UAT on newly deployed nodes. Hardening of New Arista Switches
• Basic level knowledge of Linux, Python/Bash scripting, VMware  
• Experience of delivering technical and operational training to customers

Qualifications, skills and experience: 

• Industry experience focused on IP networks.
• 10-15 Years, Specialization in Service  Provider Domain 
• A computer science (or similar) degree 
• Arista EOS and Cloud Vision experience 
• For Architect Role: Led and delivered several projects including greenfield  implementations, complex migrations and integration efforts.
• CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications/ equivalents, security certifications such as  CISSP/equivalents 
• Excellent written and verbal skills

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.