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What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.\nAt Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.\nOur commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.\n Position Summary\nWe are seeking a highly technical, strategic, and experienced Senior Infrastructure Cloud Systems Manager to lead an IT team overseeing a complex hybrid, multi-cloud enterprise ecosystem.\nIn this position, you will work alongside executive leadership to identify strategic technology solutions, direct a team of IT professionals, manage key projects, and assess emerging technologies to maximize operational efficiency and security. Key duties include building vendor partnerships, maintaining robust cybersecurity standards, overseeing the departmental budgets, reporting performance metrics, and cultivating an environment centered on continuous growth and professional development.\nThe individual must be dedicated to strengthening system resilience, modernizing infrastructure and accelerating Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption through rigorous governance and service delivery excellence.\nKey Responsibilities\nInfrastructure Strategy and Leadership\nOwn the infrastructure strategy and roadmap, partnering with senior management to align technology initiatives with business priorities, risk tolerances and AI-enabled innovation. \nLead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of infrastructure professionals, building strong technical capability, accountability and succession planning. .\nEstablish standard operating procedures (SOPs), clear escalation paths, and operational SLAs/SLOs. Drive capacity planning, resource allocation and advance technological transformation.\nMulti-Cloud & On-Premises Architecture\nOversee day-to-day operations and strategic evolution of enterprise infrastructure across VMware, Windows Server, Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu), AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI.\nChampion Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to standardize deployments across distinct cloud environments.\nEstablish governance models for multi-cloud management, workload placement, cross-cloud networking, and platform interconnectivity.\nDevelop the systems infrastructure, governance, identity and data foundations required for enabling enterprise AI.\nReliability, Performance & Operations\nMaintain target uptime, resilience, and business continuity across all production environments.\nImplement centralized monitoring, alerting, and observability tools across hybrid environments.\nPartner with Security teams to enforce identity access management (IAM), patch management, zero-trust architectures, and compliance standards (e.g., SOC2, PCI-DSS).\nLead through critical events including major outages, cybersecurity incidents and recovery efforts. Work with cross-functional teams to restore services and minimize business impacts.\nLead Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy, testing, ransomware preparedness, recovery capabilities and infrastructure governance to support security, compliance and business continuity.\nVendor & Financial Management\nManage infrastructure budgets and spends, vendor relationships, and licensing agreements to ensure cost effective operations.\nEvaluate and select vendors, negotiate SLAs, contracts and performance expectations.\nDrive FinOps practices-monitoring multi-cloud consumption costs, eliminating waste, and optimizing usage across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.\n Required Qualifications\nExperience: 12+ years in Systems/Cloud Engineering, with at least 3-5 years in a formal technical leadership or management role.\n OS & Virtualization Mastery: Deep operational expertise with VMware vSphere/vCenter, Microsoft Windows Server administration (Active Directory, Group Policy), and Enterprise Linux environments.\n Multi-Cloud Expertise: Proven track record running production workloads across major cloud hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and database/enterprise clouds (OCI).\n Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Hands-on background with automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, or cloud-native IaC frameworks).\n Networking & Security: Solid understanding of multi-cloud networking (VPCs, VNets, DirectConnect, ExpressRoute, FastConnect), DNS, IAM, and hybrid connectivity.\nDisaster Recovery: Experience designing and testing robust DR/BCP strategies across hybrid/multi-cloud setups.\nPreferred Qualifications\nRelevant enterprise certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, OCI Architect Professional, VCP-DCV).\nBackground in FinOps and cloud cost management tools.\nFamiliarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS) and CI/CD pipelines.\nArista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. 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