Network Systems Engineer (Pre Sales)
Links Technology Solutions, Inc.
Chicago, IL
JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$112,000–$160,000 Per Year
LOCATION
Chicago, IL
POSTED
30+ days ago
Responsibilities of the Network Systems Engineer:
- The Pre-Sales Systems Engineer has the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our clients customers and partners to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers.
- Own the pre and post-sales technical relationship with the assigned territory and customer base.
- Build and maintain a deep, sound knowledge of all our clients technologies, in order to support and help in the enablement of strategic customers.
- Facilitate technical training on our clients products, differentiators, solutions, and demos.
- Engage with key partners to develop proficiencies in delivering services around Our clients solution set.
- Participate in the execution of Proof of Concepts (POCs) and on-site customer testing.
- Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews with customer base.
- Support onsite requirements at the customer site.
- Respond to inbound questions from the customers including research and lab testing of solutions.
- Present technical content to worldwide organizations both virtually and in-person.
- Create technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization.
- Travel expectations is approximately 10%.
Qualifications of the Network Systems Engineer:
- Minimum of 5 years of networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center, Campus, WI-FI and Security solutions working with Financial Services customers.
- Strong presentation and selling skills including communication of complex technical material.
- Solid understanding and knowledge of how to build successful relationships between an equipment manufacturer and a customer base of executives, architects, engineers and operations teams.
- Good interpersonal skills, customer relations skills, and problem management skills, with the ability to stay calm and professional under pressure while working to strict deadlines.
- Experience creating technical material (slides, white papers, battle cards, solution guides, etc).
- Solid knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services.
- Experience with Network Overlay and Virtualization is highly desired.
- Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible desired.
- Network Industry Certification including Arista Cloud Engineer (ACE) level 3-5 desired.
Benefits of the Network Systems Engineer:
- 10 Days PTO
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Matching 401k
- Direct hire opportunity!
- Hybrid role in Chicago, IL
- Salary Range: $112k - $160k
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