Advisory Systems Engineer, Taiwan

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 $8 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

We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a collaborative, self-motivated Advisory Systems Engineer to partner with our Account teams to provide pre-sales technical systems engineering support for our service provider/enterprise/commercial customers in Taiwan. We are looking for candidates based in Taiwan for this role.

What You'll Do

• You will partner with the Arista Account Managers to understand customer pain points and conduct white board network architectural reviews in addition to conducting Arista product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus (including WIFI) and SD-WAN (preferrable VeloCloud) networking solutions, CloudVision (Network Automation), Security (Network Detection), Endpoint Security and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions.
• You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Campus network & SD-WAN solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.
• Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, Data Center and/or Campus network and/or SD-WAN designs, and network deployments using new products and features
• Put together design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support
• Partner with Sales Team to respond to RFP/RFQs
• Provide feedback to Product Management and Engineering
• Represent Arista at SDN and Open Networking industry events and conferences
• Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products, and services
• Author white papers on technology and products

Qualifications Required:

• 8+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles (network consulting, customer success, solution architecture etc.)
• Expertise in L2/L3 networking, routing (OSPF, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN) and automation ecosystems (EOS, CloudVision, Ansible, Terraform, Python)
• Strong consultative and business acumen; experience linking technical outcomes to revenue growth
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and advisory skills

 

Preferred:

• Arista ACE certification (or willingness to obtain within first 90 days).
• Background in customer facing consultative role including professional services or customer success engineering.
• Knowledge and understanding of data center, cloud, campus or routing environments.

 

Key Success Metrics

• Direct contribution to the sales pipeline,e.g. upselling, expanding support (tracked via SFDC association)
• Increased adoption of Arista technologies (Day 2 feature usage)
• Time-to-deployment and feature portfolio adoption
• Customer satisfaction (CSAT/NPS)
• Documented value realization (ROI/TCO improvements, automation gains)

Why Join the Advisory Systems Team at Arista?

• Join a global team redefining the role of services in post-sales success.
• Work directly with the world’s most innovative network operators. 
• Be at the forefront of software-driven networking and automation.