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Job Description
Network Engineers in Solution Testing are sought to ensure the quality of Arista's products through system test type testing of large, complex and feature-rich end-to-end environments.
Arista Networks
Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with various stakeholders from 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 test plans, 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 the 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 reproduction efforts when needed.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in telecommunications, computer engineering, or 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, e VPN, 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.