Network Engineer in Solution Test

Arista Networks
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 3+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Team collaboration","Independence","Documentation"]

Join Arista’s Solution Test team to ensure quality of complex end-to-end networks by designing test topologies, executing exhaustive tests, and collaborating with engineering, sales and TAC to reproduce issues and drive improvements across large data-center environments. You will emulate customer environments, test feature interactions, troubleshoot failures, and present results to stakeholders while exploring new technologies.

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Arista Networks
Arista Networks
2 years ago

Network Engineer in Solution Test

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Job Summary

Join Arista’s Solution Test team to ensure quality of complex end-to-end networks by designing test topologies, executing exhaustive tests, and collaborating with engineering, sales and TAC to reproduce issues and drive improvements across large data-center environments. You will emulate customer environments, test feature interactions, troubleshoot failures, and present results to stakeholders while exploring new technologies.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate with 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

Key Requirements

  • •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
  • •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
Experience:3+ yearsComputer networkingData centerEnterprise networking
Education:Master's in telecommunications, computer engineering, computer networking
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingTeam collaborationIndependenceDocumentation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:IPOSPFBGPVXLANMPLSEVPNECMPVRRPSTPRSTPMSTPVST+LACPCLISNMPPythonTCLLinuxTcpdumpIperf

Company Brief

Arista Networks
Designs and sells high-performance cloud networking hardware and software for large-scale data centers and enterprise environments, including switches, routers, and network operating systems focused on programmability, telemetry, and low-latency networking.
Industry: Networking Equipment
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 2004
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