(1/21/2025 A) Senior Network Engineer

5 days ago


Dublin, Ireland Arista Full time

Arista Networks is the leader in software driven networking solutions for today’s largest Data Center (DC), Cloud, Internet/WAN, Service Provider (SP) and Campus environments. Arista has over 7500 customers ranging from the largest cloud providers, to healthcare, government, carrier, finance, education, and production web/SaaS companies. Arista's products are the foundation underpinning much of modern society's operations.

Arista has ambitious plans and an unprecedented opportunity for growth and we are looking for many more engineers and designers to join us in building and innovating the world's networks. Arista is a profitable, publicly quoted company with revenues of over $2B with a culture of invention, quality, respect, and fun.

One of the many attractions of joining Arista is that right from the top, Arista is an engineering company. The founders and engineering managers are all engineers who understand good software engineering and the importance of doing things right.

Job Description

Arista Networks is looking for a high-caliber Network Engineer for our Solution Test team. The key role of the Solution test group is to ensure the quality of Arista’s products through system testing of large, complex, and feature-rich, end-to-end environments. This involves focusing on key technologies as well as emulating Arista’s most important and strategic customers' networks by:

Researching technologies, features, and customer environments in order to come up with the right topologies to test

Exercising extensive feature interaction and identifying potential areas of breakage

Exhaustive testing focusing on realistic use cases, scale, and performance

Job Responsibilities

Collaborate with various stakeholders from the development, sales, and other engineering teams to understand testing requirements and expectations (could be a new feature, new design, new release, specific migration scenarios…)

Plan the building of, or add to the existing network topology, as required to test the use cases

Configure hardware, features, traffic generators, and other tools to emulate the required environment

Execute exhaustive test plans, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance, and realistic scale based on real-life scenarios

Participate in test plan reviews held by feature test teams and provide customer-centric inputs

Troubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings and work with the development team on reproduction, root cause analysis, fix verification, and bug/limitation documentation

Communicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design, implementation, and performance improvements

Interact with the sales team and customers to answer questions, handle ad-hoc requests, and run small demos

Collaborate with peers to cross-train on new technologies and improve team effectiveness

Help the TAC team with escalation reproduction efforts when needed

Help the POC team with demo efforts when needed

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's (preferred) degree in telecommunications, computer engineering, computer networking

10+ years of experience working on complex end-to-end environments, including design and hands-on tasks (deployments, implementation, migration…)

Experience in testing preferred but not required

Highly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding, IP multicast, OSPF, BGP, VxLAN, MPLS, EVPN, ECMP, VRRP, STP, RSTP, MST, PVST+, Ethernet link aggregation, LACP, etc.

Detailed working knowledge of layer-2/3 switch administration, including industry-standard CLI, SNMP, and API interfaces

Familiarity with Linux tools such as ping, traceroute, tcpdump, ifconfig, ip link, ip route, arp, /proc/net, /proc/sys/net, vmstat, netstat, ttcp, iperf, and strace

Some familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or TCL

Strong written and oral communication skills

Strong drive to improve quality and curiosity to learn new technologies

Able to operate with a high degree of independence, driven by an internal desire to succeed at the challenge of breaking our products

ACE L4, CCIE or JNCIE level (holding the certification a plus, but not required)

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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