Site Reliability/NetDevOps Engineer

Location: hybrid remote/near-site Richmond, VA
Contract: This is a B2B contract for a fixed period of 12 months, with possible extensions.

We are seeking engineers to join Arista Network’s Professional Services (Software Services) team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or people with NetDevOps experience. Join a global team to help our customers achieve their goals and automate and solve real-life IP networking problems. At Arista you will be working on a project with one of the largest North American banks.

Arista Networks is a networking hardware vendor, they have a reputation for building high-performance data center network equipment and are popular with some of the hyper-scale companies. They are an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack.

Arista has a prestigious set of customers, including Fortune 500 global companies in markets such as cloud titans, enterprise, financials, and specialty cloud service providers. The company delivers products across the data center and campus with routing and software solutions for monitoring and network detection and response worldwide.


Main areas of focus: 

• Automation and testing: Using the latest automation techniques and tools
  
• Cloud services: Implementing and operating scalable, flexible and cloud agnostic solutions for internal and external customers
  

Qualifications & Attributes

Essential

• Python or Golang (e.g. creating tools/projects from scratch, develop in-house tooling to assist with operations activities, or working on large-scale software projects)
  
• CI platforms (e.g. Jenkins or Gitlab, etc.)
  
• Container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) service orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)
  
• Understanding of IP networking
  
• Solid Linux
  
• Excellent communication skills
  

 
Desirable

• Comfortable working in all phases of software development life cycle
  
• Familiarity with Cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, and Azure)
  
• Experience with complex data center networking, mgmt and orchestration
  
• Arista Networks equipment experience
  
• Experience with operating services in production environments
  
• Experience of working closely with customer operations teams
  
• Exposed to NETCONF, OPENCONFIG, GRPC, GNMI, network automation technologies.