Senior Network Engineer - Solution Test

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

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

What You'll Do

• 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)