Network Engineer in Solution Test

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

The key role of the Solution test group is to ensure the quality of Arista’s products through System test type testing of large, complex and feature rich end-to-end environments 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 breakage areas

Exhaustive testing focusing on realistic use cases, scale and performance

What You'll Do

Collaborate with various stakeholders from the development, sales and other test teams to understand requirements and expectations

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

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

Execute exhaustive testplan, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance and realistic scale

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 and performance improvements

Interact with 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 escalations reproductions efforts when needed

Masters degree in telecommunications, computer engineering, computer networking

3+ years of experience in a System test or Solution test role, handling complex end-to-end environments.

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 and SNMP 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

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