Systems Engineer Jobs at Arista Networks with Visa Sponsorship
Systems Engineer roles at Arista Networks sit at the intersection of deep networking expertise and enterprise sales support, requiring candidates who can demo, architect, and troubleshoot EOS-based solutions. Arista has a consistent track record of sponsoring international engineers across multiple visa categories for this function.
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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
When you join Arista as part of the Sales Engineering team, you're not just stepping into a role; you're becoming part of a team of industry experts and technical leaders. Typically reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you'll be working alongside some of the most skilled field engineers in the industry. Our team prides itself on not just understanding the technology but also the business impact and aligning our solutions with the larger goals of our clients. In collaboration with our Product Management and Software Development teams, you will play a pivotal role in steering product developments, offerings, and strategic direction to best serve our customers and prospects. Supported by the expertise of our world class Arista TAC, cutting-edge proof-of-concept resources, and support of the executive team, you are well-positioned to lead and innovate within the industry.
We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a creative, collaborative, self-motivated Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer to partner with our Account teams to provide pre-sales technical systems engineering support for our enterprise customers in the St Louis area.
The Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team with the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our customers to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers.
- Collaborate with Arista Account Managers to gain an in-depth business and technological understanding of our enterprise clients and conduct whiteboard network architectural reviews to identify areas for improvement in network performance and efficiency
- You will conduct Arista product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus (including WIFI) networking solutions, CloudVision (Network Automation), Security (Network Detection), Endpoint Security and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions.
- You will OWN the pre-sales and post-sales technical relationship with the assigned customers and channel partners
- Build and maintain a deep, sound knowledge of all Arista technologies, in order to support and help in the enablement of channel partner engineers and customers’ engineers and architects
- Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews with customer base
- Support onsite requirements at the customer site
- Facilitate technical training on Arista’s products, differentiators, solutions, and demos
- You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.
- Perform hands-on testing to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, Data Center and/or Campus network 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
- Author feature requests, business justifications, and provide feedback to the Product Management, Hardware Development and Software Development organizations
- Represent Arista at industry events and conferences, including potential speaking roles.
- Present technical content to worldwide organizations both virtually and in-person
- Create technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization
- Author white papers on technology and product
- Travel expectations is approximately 15-30%
Qualifications
- BS/CS/CE Business or Technical degree required; MBA/MS degree a strong plus
- Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE, ACE-5,6,7)
- You possess a minimum of 5+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center, Campus, and WIFI solutions
- 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)
- You possess recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design.
- Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
- Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, EVPN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS
- Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI
- Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible HIGHLY desired.
- Strong writing skills and ability to create informative white papers on technology and products is highly desired
LI-TC1
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
When you join Arista as part of the Sales Engineering team, you're not just stepping into a role; you're becoming part of a team of industry experts and technical leaders. Typically reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you'll be working alongside some of the most skilled field engineers in the industry. Our team prides itself on not just understanding the technology but also the business impact and aligning our solutions with the larger goals of our clients. In collaboration with our Product Management and Software Development teams, you will play a pivotal role in steering product developments, offerings, and strategic direction to best serve our customers and prospects. Supported by the expertise of our world class Arista TAC, cutting-edge proof-of-concept resources, and support of the executive team, you are well-positioned to lead and innovate within the industry.
We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a creative, collaborative, self-motivated Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer to partner with our Account teams to provide pre-sales technical systems engineering support for our enterprise customers in the St Louis area.
The Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team with the key responsibility of acting as a trusted advisor for our customers to gather requirements and identify opportunities with existing and new customers.
- Collaborate with Arista Account Managers to gain an in-depth business and technological understanding of our enterprise clients and conduct whiteboard network architectural reviews to identify areas for improvement in network performance and efficiency
- You will conduct Arista product presentations of Arista’s Open Networking Data Center and Cognitive Campus (including WIFI) networking solutions, CloudVision (Network Automation), Security (Network Detection), Endpoint Security and Real-time Fabric Monitoring solutions.
- You will OWN the pre-sales and post-sales technical relationship with the assigned customers and channel partners
- Build and maintain a deep, sound knowledge of all Arista technologies, in order to support and help in the enablement of channel partner engineers and customers’ engineers and architects
- Execute technical Quarterly Business Reviews with customer base
- Support onsite requirements at the customer site
- Facilitate technical training on Arista’s products, differentiators, solutions, and demos
- You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center & Campus network solutions using leaf-spine architectures (VxLAN, EVPN) and network overlays to capture additional sales.
- Perform hands-on testing to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, Data Center and/or Campus network 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
- Author feature requests, business justifications, and provide feedback to the Product Management, Hardware Development and Software Development organizations
- Represent Arista at industry events and conferences, including potential speaking roles.
- Present technical content to worldwide organizations both virtually and in-person
- Create technical marketing materials for the global Arista organization
- Author white papers on technology and product
- Travel expectations is approximately 15-30%
Qualifications
- BS/CS/CE Business or Technical degree required; MBA/MS degree a strong plus
- Network Industry Certification preferred (e.g. CCIE (R&S), JNCIE, ACE-5,6,7)
- You possess a minimum of 5+ years of L2/L3 networking design and implementation experience with a focus on Data Center, Campus, and WIFI solutions
- 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)
- You possess recent experience in leaf-spine architecture design.
- Demonstrated work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales SE or Network Consulting Engineer preferred
- Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, eBGP, VxLAN, EVPN, Multicast, Spanning Tree, QoS
- Expert level knowledge of industry-standard CLI
- Previous experience building network automation using Python and Ansible HIGHLY desired.
- Strong writing skills and ability to create informative white papers on technology and products is highly desired
LI-TC1
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 Systems Engineer Jobs at Arista Networks Jobs
Certify Your Networking Credentials Before Applying
Arista's SE interviews test hands-on EOS and BGP knowledge directly. Holding a CCIE, JNCIE, or Arista ACE credential signals technical depth and shortens the vetting process, making a sponsorship conversation easier to initiate.
Target Arista Openings in Their Tier-One Territory Markets
Arista assigns SEs to geographic territories tied to enterprise and cloud accounts. Roles covering major metro markets like New York, Chicago, or the Bay Area tend to fill fastest, so applying to those postings increases your chances of reaching an offer stage.
Find Arista Systems Engineer Roles Through Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters Systems Engineer openings specifically by visa sponsorship type, so you can browse Arista postings confirmed to support H-1B, OPT, or TN candidates without sorting through roles that won't sponsor.
Clarify TN Eligibility If You Hold a Canadian or Mexican Passport
Arista sponsors TN visas for qualifying Systems Engineer roles, and TN processing at the border avoids the H-1B lottery entirely. Confirm your degree maps to the DOL's Computer Systems Analyst or Engineer TN category before your offer negotiation.
Ask About LCA Filing Timing During Offer Negotiation
Your start date depends on when your employer files the Labor Condition Application with DOL. For H-1B transfers or cap-exempt filings, LCA certification typically takes seven business days, so building that window into your notice period prevents gaps in authorization.
Align Your Resume to SE Job Descriptions Before USCIS Petitions
USCIS evaluates whether your background directly supports the specialty occupation claimed in the I-129 petition. Systems Engineer roles at Arista involve specific duties like network design and pre-sales architecture, so your resume should reflect those exact functions, not a general IT background.
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Does Arista Networks sponsor H-1B visas for Systems Engineers?
Yes, Arista Networks sponsors H-1B visas for Systems Engineer roles. The company has a consistent history of filing H-1B petitions for this function, which covers both new cap-subject filings and transfers from existing H-1B holders. If you already hold an H-1B with another employer, a transfer to Arista lets you start work as soon as the petition is filed with USCIS, without waiting for approval.
How do I apply for Systems Engineer jobs at Arista Networks?
Apply directly through Arista's careers portal, where Systems Engineer postings are listed by region and specialty. Before applying, review the job description carefully since SE roles at Arista often require pre-sales experience and hands-on knowledge of Arista EOS. You can also browse verified sponsorship-confirmed Systems Engineer openings at Arista through Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles filtered by visa type.
Which visa types does Arista Networks commonly use for Systems Engineer roles?
Arista sponsors H-1B visas as the primary pathway for Systems Engineers requiring long-term work authorization. The company also supports F-1 OPT and CPT for recent graduates, TN status for Canadian and Mexican nationals whose degrees align with qualifying DOL categories, and employment-based Green Card sponsorship through the EB-2 and EB-3 PERM process for candidates on longer-term career tracks.
What qualifications does Arista Networks expect for Systems Engineer candidates?
Arista typically expects a bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field for Systems Engineer roles, along with hands-on experience in enterprise networking, routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF, and ideally familiarity with Arista EOS or comparable platforms. Pre-sales or customer-facing experience is a strong differentiator since SE roles at Arista involve active support of the sales process alongside technical architecture work.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for a Systems Engineer at Arista Networks?
Timeline depends on the visa type. For H-1B cap-subject filings, the process begins with the March lottery registration, with employment starting no earlier than October 1 of that fiscal year. H-1B transfers for candidates already holding H-1B status can proceed faster, often within weeks of filing. TN sponsorship for eligible Canadians and Mexicans can be completed at the port of entry. PERM-based Green Card sponsorship typically runs 18 to 36 months from initiation.
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