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Arista Networks hires for Cybersecurity roles across threat detection, network security engineering, and security architecture. The company has a consistent track record of sponsoring international talent in technical functions, making it a realistic target for candidates who need work visa support.
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Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.
At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that 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 Best Engineering Team, 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 standards of quality and performance in everything we do.
Job Description
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
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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Network Industry Certification (e.g., CCNP; Enterprise/SP, JNCIP, ACE-3/4/5) is highly preferred.
- 5-7+ years of experience in a network engineering, consulting, or professional services role with a focus on large-scale enterprise, data center, or service provider environments.
- Demonstrated experience in a post-sales focused role such as Network Consulting Engineer, Professional Services Engineer, or Advanced Services Engineer is preferred.
- Expert-level knowledge of core networking fundamentals including the TCP/IP protocol stack, IP Routing (BGP, OSPF), and L2 switching (VxLAN/EVPN).
- In-depth knowledge in at least one key technology area: Data Center architecture, Campus networking (including NAC/802.1X), enterprise Wi-Fi, or network security.
- A demonstrable background and prior hands-on experience with network automation and scripting (Python, Ansible) is highly desired. Candidates should be able to speak to specific projects and outcomes.
- Experience with multi-vendor network migrations is highly desirable.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to maintain meticulous documentation and tracking for all customer engagements.
- This is a primarily remote (work-from-home) role for a candidate based in the Pacific Northwest, with occasional travel required to customer sites within the territory.
Compensation Information:
The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $113,000 to $175,000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location. The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.
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Additional Information
Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Company Description
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.
At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that 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 Best Engineering Team, 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 standards of quality and performance in everything we do.
Job Description
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
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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Network Industry Certification (e.g., CCNP; Enterprise/SP, JNCIP, ACE-3/4/5) is highly preferred.
- 5-7+ years of experience in a network engineering, consulting, or professional services role with a focus on large-scale enterprise, data center, or service provider environments.
- Demonstrated experience in a post-sales focused role such as Network Consulting Engineer, Professional Services Engineer, or Advanced Services Engineer is preferred.
- Expert-level knowledge of core networking fundamentals including the TCP/IP protocol stack, IP Routing (BGP, OSPF), and L2 switching (VxLAN/EVPN).
- In-depth knowledge in at least one key technology area: Data Center architecture, Campus networking (including NAC/802.1X), enterprise Wi-Fi, or network security.
- A demonstrable background and prior hands-on experience with network automation and scripting (Python, Ansible) is highly desired. Candidates should be able to speak to specific projects and outcomes.
- Experience with multi-vendor network migrations is highly desirable.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to maintain meticulous documentation and tracking for all customer engagements.
- This is a primarily remote (work-from-home) role for a candidate based in the Pacific Northwest, with occasional travel required to customer sites within the territory.
Compensation Information:
The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $113,000 to $175,000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location. The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.
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Additional Information
Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Cybersecurity Jobs at Arista Networks Jobs
Align your credentials to network security
Arista's Cybersecurity hires typically work across cloud networking and zero-trust architecture. Certifications like CISSP, CCNP Security, or cloud security credentials signal direct relevance to the infrastructure Arista builds and sells.
Target roles tied to Arista's CloudVision platform
Security engineering positions at Arista often intersect with CloudVision and EOS. Framing your experience around network telemetry, security policy automation, or SDN environments puts your application in front of the hiring teams most likely to sponsor.
Browse open Cybersecurity roles through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Arista Networks' active Cybersecurity openings by visa type. This surfaces only roles where sponsorship is confirmed, saving you from applying to positions that won't support your status.
Prepare for a technical interview loop focused on defensive security
Arista's Cybersecurity interviews typically include hands-on scenarios around network threat detection and incident response. Document specific cases where you identified vulnerabilities or hardened network infrastructure before your first technical screen.
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Find Cybersecurity at Arista Networks JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does Arista Networks sponsor H-1B visas for Cybersecurity roles?
Yes, Arista Networks sponsors H-1B visas for Cybersecurity positions. The company has a documented history of filing H-1B petitions for technical roles, including those in network security and related engineering functions. If you're cap-subject, sponsorship depends on winning the annual USCIS lottery, so timing your application cycle and offer acceptance matters.
How do I apply for Cybersecurity jobs at Arista Networks?
Apply directly through Arista Networks' careers page, or use Migrate Mate to browse their current Cybersecurity openings filtered by visa sponsorship eligibility. Tailor your resume to reflect experience with network security, cloud environments, or security automation. Arista's technical hiring process typically includes multiple interview rounds focused on hands-on security scenarios.
Which visa types does Arista Networks commonly sponsor for Cybersecurity positions?
Arista Networks sponsors H-1B visas as the primary long-term work authorization path for Cybersecurity roles. The company also supports F-1 OPT and CPT for students in active programs, TN status for eligible Canadian and Mexican nationals, and immigrant visa pathways including EB-2 and EB-3 for candidates pursuing permanent residence.
What qualifications does Arista Networks expect for Cybersecurity roles?
Arista typically looks for candidates with a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information security, or a closely related field. Hands-on experience with network security, threat analysis, or security operations is expected. Familiarity with Arista's EOS platform, cloud networking environments, or zero-trust security frameworks strengthens an application significantly.
How do I plan my timeline if I need visa sponsorship for a Cybersecurity role at Arista?
If you're pursuing H-1B sponsorship, Arista would need to file your petition by the April 1 USCIS deadline for an October 1 employment start. Budget eight to twelve weeks for Arista's hiring process and begin your job search no later than January. If you're on OPT, confirm your expiration date early so recruiters can assess whether a cap-gap or H-1B filing covers your transition.
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