Network Advanced Services Engineer (Data Center/Network Automation)

Who You’ll Work With

As a member of Arista's Cloud Services team, you are a trusted technical authority for our most

strategic customers. Reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you will partner with a world-

class team of field engineers, technical leaders, and product experts. Your primary focus is on the

post-sales success of our customers, ensuring their network designs are robust, their deployments

are seamless, and their operations are optimized. This is a customer-facing role, frequently engaging

with clients at their sites to build trust and drive projects forward.

You will work in tight collaboration with our Sales Engineering, Product Management, and Software

Development teams to represent the customer's voice, influencing product direction and service

offerings. Supported by the expertise of our world-class Arista TAC and state-of-the-art lab

resources, you are empowered to serve as a long-term advocate and advisor for our clients.

Alternate Locations: Spokane, WA | Portland, OR

Note: Only local residents of Washington and Oregon will be considered for this position. 

What You’ll Do

This role is a blend of deep post-sales engineering and strategic pre-sales support, with an

approximate 70% focus on post-sales activities.

Primary Post-Sales Responsibilities (70%)

● Serve as the lead technical expert for the design, deployment, and operationalization of

Arista solutions in large-scale Data Center, Campus, and WAN environments for our large Cloud customers in the Pacific Northwest region. 

● Translate complex business requirements into scalable, resilient, and secure network

architectures.

● Create and review comprehensive network designs, providing best-practice

recommendations to customers during on-site and remote working sessions.

● Lead complex migration and interconnection projects from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper,

and Aruba to the Arista EOS®-based infrastructure.

● Develop and implement network automation workflows using Python, Ansible, and other

DevOps frameworks to streamline configurations and operations.

● Act as a technical advocate for the customer, providing an expert interface to Arista TAC and

internal development for bug scrubs, code recommendations, and feature requests.

● Establish and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key customer stakeholders,

becoming their trusted technical advisor.

Pre-Sales & Strategic Responsibilities (30%)

● Partner with the Sales Engineering team by providing deep technical expertise during the

evaluation and proof-of-concept (POC) stages.

● Lead in-depth, hands-on testing to validate complex design scenarios and customer success

criteria.

● Attend and present at key customer and partner events; deliver ongoing technical training to

customer engineering teams.

● Maintain deep listening skills, customer empathy, humility, and competence to build trust

and drive successful outcomes.