Site Reliability Engineer (SRE/ DevOps) - Engineering Productivity at Arista Networks

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.

Who You'll Work With

Arista Networks is looking for a skilled professional for our Engineering Productivity team to help maintain and support our rapidly expanding infrastructure and internal user base. The ideal candidate is someone who can wear many hats, can be versatile and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies.

As a part of the software engineering team, you will work with other team members to design, build and administer secure, scalable and fault-tolerant tools and infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.

What You'll Do

• Building, integrating and maintaining tools and infrastructure facilitating internal development and testing.
• Improve maintainability of build system
• Evaluate new tools
• Improve speed of information back to the development team within the build systems and processes
• Troubleshoot and resolve systems and network issues.
• Adherence to infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Participate in the design and implementation of new systems and infrastructure projects.

Essential Skills

• Minimum 4+ years commercial experience in this space as a DevOps / SRE Engineer
• Solid experience with Jenkins and GitHub, ideally with a background/understanding of the Atlassian stack of products (Confluence/Jira/Bamboo/Bitbucket)
• UNIX / Linux systems administration (preferably RedHat/CentOS).
• Scripting with Python or Bash or experience at least one high level language such as Go, C++, etc.. 
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with (CI/CD) orchestration and software configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef).
• Ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Working knowledge/experience with Makefile/make

Desired Skills

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a relevant experience subject.
• Experience with monitoring systems (e.g. Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, DataDog).
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, XenServer, RHEV, QEMU/KVM).
• Experience with any of the following: Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Grafana, Artifactory.
• Exposure to FPGA build projects
• Exposure or experience with Vivado (Xilinx)

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