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Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $8 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience. Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.\nAt Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe 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 the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and 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 quality and performance standards in everything we do.\n Who You'll Work With\nAs a Site Reliability Engineer within the Platform Software Team, you will focus on developing and sustaining the fundamental infrastructure that supports our Manufacturing and Platform Diagnostics teams. This critical environment facilitates the validation of high-speed digital designs and ensures optimized manufacturing yields for Arista Network products, which serve the largest data centers across the computer networking sector\nIn this role, you will collaborate closely with a core team of Infrastructure and Tools Engineers. Serving as a bridge across multiple Arista engineering groups, you will develop systems and tools utilized within our HW Labs and Manufacturing sites to ensure that lab and manufacturing operations run smoothly.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nAs a SRE, you’ll be responsible for the software infrastructure powering our HW Labs and Manufacturing Sites. This includes:\nBuild, deploy safely and incrementally and operate critical production systems with focus on scalability, reliability, observability, performance and security.\nMonitor, support and enhance product deployment experience across services.\nBuild automation to remove toil and efficiently operate production systems.\nProactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts and set up automated alert handling\nCreate and maintain the incident response runbooks.\nBuild and deploy new systems with scalability, reliability, and observability as primary requirements\nTriage platform/infrastructural issues and help Arista software engineers in their triages. Engage with 3rd party vendor support.\nDeploy new systems in a staged manner\nWrite postmortem documents and build solutions to avoid incidents from repeating.\nPlan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems.\nWork with Arista’s product development teams to identify infrastructural issues that are causing bottlenecks and limitations in their workflows. Design and implement solutions to resolve them.\nSurvey and adopt best practices around infrastructure/platform to maintain secure, scalable and fault-tolerant systems.\nImplement solutions to scale the systems\nImplement fault-tolerance and performance to improve availability of the systems\nStudy the design and sufficient implementation details of OSS systems for better triage and fix resolution\n At least Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering + 5 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 5 years’ experience, or equivalent work experience.\nKnowledge of one or more of Go, Python, bash shell scripting to be able to implement medium complexity automation workflows.\nKnowledge of Linux (or UNIX) from administration and debugging perspective\nHand-on experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes on bare-metal infrastructure\nExperience in server provisioning with Ansible and Ansible Tower/AWX\nExperience with docker and virtualization technologies\nExperience with air-gapped systems\nStrong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code.\nDesirable to have one/more of the following skills\nExperience managing databases - eg: MySQL or equivalent RDBMS etc\nExperience managing monitoring stack - Prometheus, Grafana etc\nExperience managing Artifactory, docker registry etc\nExperience managing CI/CD systems like GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Zuul etc\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks like Terraform\n Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.\nWe hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.\nOur engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. 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