Kubernetes Systems Engineer

Summary

Join our Engineering Productivity team at Arista Networks to help maintain and support our rapidly expanding infrastructure and internal user base. As a skilled professional, 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.

Requirements

• At least BSc 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
• Experience with shell Scripting to be able to implement medium complexity automation workflows
• Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX)
• Experience in operating software systems at scale
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of storage and networking
• Comfortable with Ansible and GitOps
• Strong expertise with managing on-prem/baremetal Kubernetes clusters
• 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
• Comfortable with security principles and able to study source code of OSS projects, conduct experiments as necessary to debug issues
• Proven expertise with debugging complex issues that span the technology stack
• Experience dealing with network proxies and containerized storage

Responsibilities

• Work with existing k8s admin team to own different aspects of managing a production k8s cluster (eg: upgrades, monitoring, capacity planning, security, developer experience etc)
• Proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts and set up automated alert handling where applicable
• Create and maintain the incident response runbooks working with the service dev teams
• Debug and resolve issues impacting developer user experience and infrastructure stability around the k8s platform
• Adopt current best practices in k8s cluster management. Evaluate and adopt OSS projects that simplify k8s cluster management
• Set up guidelines and paved paths for service dev teams improving developer experience around the k8s platform
• Work with Arista’s software engineers to identify bottlenecks and limitations in our workflows, tooling, and infrastructure around k8s and provide fixes for those problems
• Engage with 3rd party vendor support as part of triage