Advisory Systems Engineer - DV Cleared
Arista Networks
As an Advisory Systems Engineer at Arista, you will serve as a strategic technical advisor to large public sector accounts, driving Day 2 adoption and business value realization from Arista investments. You build deep, long-term relationships, influence revenue, and guide operational optimization and automation maturity. You act as a trusted liaison linking technical health to outcomes while collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role sits at the intersection of technology and business impact, shaping solutions for complex environments.
Responsibilities- Position Arista products in DC, Campus, Routing, AI, CV to expand account footprint and support new opportunities including PoC testing
- Assist in deploying CloudVision, APIs, and automation toolsets and help customers implement monitoring, telemetry, and provisioning workflows
- Lead technical workshops and provide guidance on training, certification, and skill uplift for customer teams
- Coordinate with SEs and PS teams to ensure end-to-end lifecycle coverage and act as technical liaison between customers, Arista TAC, and engineering
- Serve as primary contact for Customer's Operations during QBRs, QoRs, and feedback loops and evangelize professional services deliverables
- 10+ years in customer-facing technical roles (network consulting, customer success, solution architecture)
- Active DV clearance
- Expertise in L2/L3 networking and routing (OSPF, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN) and automation ecosystems (EOS, CloudVision, Ansible, Terraform, Python)
- Strong consultative and business acumen with ability to map technical outcomes to revenue growth
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Arista ACE certification (or willingness to obtain within 90 days)
- Background in customer-facing consultative roles such as professional services or customer success engineering
- Knowledge of data center, cloud, campus, or routing environments
- excellent communication
- stakeholder management
- advisory mindset
- EOS
- CloudVision
- Ansible
Reference: WJ-747_30164289