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 team as a NetDevOps engineer. 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 US 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:
- Strong IP Networking Operational experience
- Network 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
- Understanding of IP networking: BGP / EVPN / VxLAN / Spanning Tree / OSPF or ISIS
- Some Python or Golang (at writing script to assist with operation or migration tasks)
- Some experience of container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Some experience of Service orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)
- Solid Linux
- Personable with excellent communication skills
Desirable
- Arista Network experience
- Experience with CI platforms (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab)
- Source control (Git, etc.)
- Familiarity with Cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, and Azure)
- Network Vendor certifications: CCIE/JNCIE; CCNP/JNCIP/JNCIS
