Site Reliability Engineer, Arista
SRE/ DevOps, Engineering Productivity
Data-driven cloud networking
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Data-driven cloud networking
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To design, manufacture and deliver leading data-driven cloud networking solutions in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is someone who can wear many hats, is versatile and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies
- At least BSc Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, or equivalent work experience
- Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, shell scripting to be able to implement medium complexity automation workflows
- Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX) from administration and debugging perspective
- Hands-on experience in operating software systems (infrastructure, complex applications etc) at scale
- Experience in server provisioning (esp from storage and networking perspective)
- Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
Desirable
- Experience managing databases - mariadb, postgres, mongodb etc
- Experience with docker and virtualization technologies - kvm, qemu, kata-containers etc
- Experience managing monitoring stack - Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Grafana, Thanos etc
- Experience managing ElasticSearch clusters
- Experience managing Artifactory, docker registry etc
- Experience managing CI/CD systems like ArgoCD, Spinnaker etc
- Experience managing version control systems like Perforce, Gerrit etc
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks like Ansible
- Experience managing large Java applications
- Experience in storage infrastructure management eg: NAS, SAN, Ceph etc
What the job involves
- Arista Networks is looking for a skilled professional for our Engineering Productivity (EngProd) team to help maintain and support our rapidly expanding infrastructure and internal user base
- 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
- Working in the EngProd group, you will collaborate and work with other engineers to design, build, scale, and operate the systems used by Arista’s product development teams
- These systems are based on industry-standards, including Ansible, Artifactory, Gerrit, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Spinnaker, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud, Varnish, Perforce, Gerrit etc, 3rd party storage appliances, as well as internal systems developed from the ground-up to automate CI/CD, testing, analysis, and visualization
- Build, deploy safely and incrementally and operate critical production systems with focus on scalability, reliability, observability, performance and security
- Monitor, support and enhance developer experience across services
- Build automation to remove toil and efficiently operate production systems
- Proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts and set up automated alert handling
- Create and maintain the incident response runbooks
- Triage platform/infrastructural issues and help Arista software engineers in their triages. Engage with 3rd party vendor support
- Write postmortem documents and build solutions to avoid incidents from repeating
- Plan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems
- Work with Arista’s product development teams to identify infrastructural issues that are causing bottlenecks and limitations in their workflows. Design and implement solutions to resolve them
- Survey and adopt best practices around infrastructure/platform to maintain secure, scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Study the design and sufficient implementation details of OSS systems for better triage and fix resolution
Our take
Arista is a supplier of cloud networking solutions, addressing the needs of internet companies, cloud service providers, and enterprises. While the business is not tied to a crowd of large customers, companies are nonetheless attracted to its CloudVision Software - which has the potential to save them a significant amount of money.
The company's growth so far has led to it being seen as a rising star in the computer networking industry. It competes directly with digital giant Cisco, but despite this boasts impressive revenue growth. In fact, Arista has been vocal with its confidence that it can continue to grow at a rapid pace, as it further develops its offering for the networking market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2020
$36m
SERIES C
Jul 2017
$30m
LATE VC
Total funding: $66m
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Jayshree Ullal
(CEO)Jayshree joined the Arista team in 2008 as the Founding CEO and has held the position since.
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