Who You'll Work With

We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a self-motivated Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer to provide pre-sales technical support for our customers and prospects in Nigeria and West Africa.

This role will be a contract position on a B2B basis.

The Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team. The main responsibility of the Systems Engineer is acting as a trusted advisor to our customers and prospects to identify opportunities, gather requirements and design creative solutions.

What You'll Do

• You will proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges and conduct (white board) network architectural sessions and Arista product presentations.
• You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional sales.
• You will perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and features.
• You will create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support.
• Leading technical responses to RFP/RFQs.
• Leading customer feature requests from customer 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.

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• Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone.
• Fluent in English. 
• This role will be a contract position on a B2B basis.
• Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business.
• Technical degree required.
• Networking design and implementation experience.
• Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols.
• Recent experience in Data Center, Routing or Campus network architecture designs.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Deep knowledge of the relevant switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g.,Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation, etc).
• Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape.
• Work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales.
• Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferred.
• Practical security deployment experience is a bonus.
• Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired.
• Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible.
• Arista Cloud Engineering (ACE) Level 5 or higher Qualifications or equivalent Industry qualifications.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.