Lead Consultant - Arista L5 Certified

Lead Consultant - Arista L5 Certified

15 years of experience

Nice to Have: Consultant Background

Work model: Hybrid, 25% travel may be required based on business needs

While this is a highly specialized and challenging requirement, the role does offer significant flexibility, including:

• 100% remote work arrangement
• Candidates may reside in any US City, with preference to Chicago or New York
• Up to 25% travel may be required based on business needs

Please note that an active Arista L5 certification is a mandatory requirement for this opportunity. The Hiring Manager has confirmed that no exceptions will be made , so we ask that all submitted candidates possess a current and active L5 certification.

Primary Responsibilities will include:

• Arista L5 Certification: real-world mastery of modern data center and cloud networking using Arista technologies.
• Design and engineering of effective and scalable network systems and solutions
• Participate in evaluation, testing, selection, and deployment of foundational network elements for a network buildout
• Ensure that solutions adhere to defined standards and best practices and/or assist in the development of these standards and best practices.
• Effectively design and communicate engineering solutions through detailed high- and low-level diagrams
• Routinely research, analyze, test, retest, and troubleshoot complex problems
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment, with strict deadlines, both as an individual contributor and team leader
• Proven experience in knowledge transfer, documentation and information sharing while staying abreast of new technology/technical areas
• Provide advanced technical experience for complex project work, including functional subsystem upgrades for mission-critical network devices and services as well as strategic upgrades to the network
• Design, plan, and implement complex networks
• Establish requirements, provide analysis for network and services specifications, network design, network partitioning, and network architecture definition
• Provide advanced expertise in the development of network test, validation, and integration plans on projects, and assurance of network integrity
• Engage with Solutioning and Sales teams as a subject matter expert during customer calls
• Ability to mentor junior engineers in advanced technology deployments
• Time management and the ability to multitask between several ongoing projects
• Assist with development of SoW and LoE documentation

Education and Experience

• 15+ years of professional experience in large enterprise or carrier space
• Arista L5 Certification
• Professional networking certifications a plus (i.e. CCNP/CCIE or equivalent)
• Experience with Cisco primarily within the datacenter network portfolio
• Arista skills required Juniper skills would be nice to have
• Previous Consulting Experience required

Candidate should have strong, working understanding in the following areas:

• Solid Understanding of the OSI model, routing and switching protocols, network security, IPv4 networking, subnetting, and operational experience
• Demonstrated confidence to deliver customer-facing discussions.
• Excellent verbal articulation, written communications
• Hands-on technical skills, including ability to develop and conduct demonstrations
• Complex operational configuration experience (VPC, VSS, VRF, BGP, OSPF)
• Experience with Nexus Dashboard deployment and troubleshooting (Single and Multisite configurations)
• Experience with VxLAN and EVPN datacenter networking design and implementation
• Demonstrated experience with automation or scripting tools to deploy and maintain environments.