Company Description
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $8 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience. Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.
At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe 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 the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and 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 quality and performance standards in everything we do.
Job Description
Who You’ll Work With
You’ll join Arista’s Infrastructure Engineering team, working alongside SREs, network, and security engineers. This team is responsible for building and operating our global infrastructure—including data centers and hybrid cloud environments—to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance across all systems.
What You’ll Do
- Operate global infrastructure and manage service availability
- RMA, and refresh gear
- Colo migration as needed
- Server patching, upgrades.
- On-call along with responding to security incidents.
- Build data center solutions with Infra-as-code.
- Design hybrid cloud environment for scale; integrate public cloud IaaS and physical data centers
- Work closely with SREs to ensure the various software components can be managed in a production grade environment, ensuring maximum visibility into network operations and flexibility in the event of component failures.
- Server selection, qualification, and deployment.
Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science is preferred.
- System admin for Linux, ESXi, and development in Python, IaaC, Ansible, Terraform.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Github etc
- Understanding of L2 and L3 OSI Network Layers
- Hands on experience with VCF stack,
- Administrative level understanding of Public Cloud Providers.
- Capacity Management, Availability monitoring, and Tools for monitoring the Pop infra (AIOPs, Wavefront, LogicMonitor, Elk stack, saltstack etc).
Additional Information
Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.
We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.
Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.
Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.