Site Reliability Engineer (Engineering Productivity)

• Arista Networks is looking for a skilled professional for our Engineering Productivity (EngProd) team to help maintain and support our rapidly expanding infrastructure and internal user base
• The ideal candidate is someone who can wear many hats, is versatile and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies
• As a part of the software engineering team, you will work with other team members to design, build and administer secure, scalable and fault-tolerant tools and infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment
• Working in the EngProd group, you will collaborate and work with other engineers to design, build, scale, and operate the systems used by Arista’s product development teams
• These systems are based on industry-standards, including Ansible, Artifactory, Gerrit, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Spinnaker, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud, Varnish, Perforce, Gerrit etc, 3rd party storage appliances, as well as internal systems developed from the ground-up to automate CI/CD, testing, analysis, and visualization
• Build, deploy safely and incrementally, and operate critical production systems with focus on scalability, reliability, observability, performance and security
• Build automation to remove toil and proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts with automated handling
• Create and maintain incident response runbooks, triage platform and infrastructural issues, and write postmortem documents to prevent recurring incidents
• Plan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems while engaging with 3rd party vendor support as needed
• Work with Arista’s product development teams to identify infrastructural bottlenecks and design solutions to enhance developer experience and workflow efficiency
• Survey and adopt best practices around infrastructure and platform design to maintain secure, scalable and fault-tolerant systems, including studying OSS system implementations for better triage and resolution

Benefits

• Regular ”Snack Bash” Social Events with food and drinks!
• Biweekly Wellness webinars plus regular Wellness Week events focused on physical, mental, spiritual and financial wellness as well as career development and social activities
• Arista Gives Back: Employee Engagement Giving Drives and Volunteer events
• Medical, Dental & Vision Plan Coverage
• Life Insurance, AD&D, STD & LTD
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Programs
• PTO & Paid holidays
• 401k Plan
• On-site Gym & Showers
• Secured Bike Lockers
• Secured Bike Lockers
• Flexible hours
• Employee Assistance Benefits that include mental health and backup child and elder care support
• Discounted lunches through WeBox for HQ employees
• Family planning benefits

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code
• Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX) from administration and debugging perspective
• Experience in server provisioning (esp from storage and networking perspective)
• At least BSc Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, or equivalent work experience
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
• Hands-on experience in operating software systems (infrastructure, complex applications etc) at scale
• Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, shell scripting to be able to implement medium complexity automation workflows
• Experience managing databases - mariadb, postgres, mongodb etc
• Experience with docker and virtualization technologies - kvm, qemu, kata-containers etc
• Experience managing monitoring stack - Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Grafana, Thanos etc
• Experience managing ElasticSearch clusters
• Experience managing Artifactory, docker registry etc
• Experience managing version control systems like Perforce, Gerrit etc
• Experience managing CI/CD systems like ArgoCD, Spinnaker etc
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks like Ansible
• Experience managing large Java applications
• Experience in storage infrastructure management eg: NAS, SAN, Ceph etc