Site Reliability Engineer (SRE/ DevOps)

Arista Networks, Inc.

3 - 6 years

Bangalore

Posted: 08/07/2023

Job Description

Job Description:

Working in Engineering Productivity (EngProd), you will collaborate and work with other engineers to design, build, scale, and operate the systems that the rest of Arista’s development teams use. The EngProd team uses industry-standard systems like Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Spinnaker, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud, and Varnish and also internal systems that we’ve built from the ground-up to automate CI/CD, testing, analysis, and visualization.

Responsibilities:

Keeping the production status green all the time
Proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts
Build automated responses to the most common alerts or work with the rest of the EngProd team to build them
Create and maintain the incident response runbooks working with the service dev teams
Debug and resolve issues impacting developer user experience and infrastructure stability
Develop patterns to support system reliability and socialize them within the EngProd team
Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members.
Work with Arista’s software engineers to identify bottlenecks and limitations in our workflows, tooling, and infrastructure and provide fixes for those problems.
Provide support for our tools and infrastructure to Arista’s development team.

Qualifications:

At least BS Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 2 years’ experience, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, Javascript, Shell Scripting.
Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX).
Experience operating software systems at scale
Strong understanding of the fundamentals of storage and networking
Comfortable with Ansible and GitOps
Applied understanding of software engineering principles.
Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills.
Ability to design a solution and implement features independently. Ability to work in small teams.

About Company

Arista Networks (formerly Arastra) is an American computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and high-frequency trading environments. These products include 10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet/200/400/800 low-latency cut-through switches, including the 7124SX, which remained the fastest switch using SFP+ optics through September 2012 with its sub-500 nanosecond (ns) latency, and the 7500 series, Arista's modular 10G/40G/100Gbit/s switch. Arista's Linux-based network operating system, Extensible Operating System (EOS), runs on all Arista products.