Network Engineer in Solution Test

Who Youll Work With

Arista Networks is seeking highcaliber Solution test engineers.

The key role of the Solution test group is to ensure the quality of Aristas products through System test type testing of large complex and feature rich endtoend environments focusing on key technologies as well as emulating Aristas most important and strategic customers networks by:

• researching technologies features and customer environments in order to come up with the right topologies to test
• exercising extensive feature interaction and identifying potential breakage areas
• exhaustive testing focusing on realistic use cases scale and performance

What Youll Do

• Collaborate with various stakeholders from the 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 testplan 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 sales team and customers to answer questions handle adhoc requests and run small demos
• Collaborate with peers to crosstrain on new technologies and improve team effectiveness
• Help the TAC team with escalations reproductions efforts when needed

Qualifications :

• Masters degree in telecommunications computer engineering computer networking
• 3 years of experience in a System test or Solution test role handling complex endtoend environments.
• Highly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding IP multicast OSPF BGP VXLAN MPLS eVPN ECMP VRRP STP RSTP MST PVST Ethernet link aggregation LACP etc
• Detailed working knowledge of layer2/3switch administration including industrystandard 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

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Additional Information :

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $105000 to $145000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors including skills qualifications relevant experience and work location.

The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Aristas Sales Incentive Plan which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. Employees are also entitled to benefits including medical dental vision wellbeing income protection and a Group Retirement Savings Plan. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime