Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Arista Networks' Engineering Productivity team as a skilled DevOps/SRE Engineer. You will collaborate with a team to design, build, and administer secure and scalable tools and infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment. Responsibilities include building and maintaining tools, improving build system maintainability, evaluating new tools, troubleshooting systems issues, adhering to infrastructure-as-code principles, and ensuring high system availability. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in DevOps/SRE, proficiency in various technologies (Jenkins, GitHub, Linux, Python/Bash scripting, containerization, CI/CD tools), and excellent communication skills. A fast-paced, agile environment is expected.

Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years commercial experience in this space as a DevOps / SRE Engineer
• Solid experience with Jenkins and GitHub, ideally with a background/understanding of the Atlassian stack of products (Confluence/Jira/Bamboo/Bitbucket)
• UNIX / Linux systems administration (preferably RedHat/CentOS)
• Scripting with Python or Bash or experience at least one high level language such as Go, C++, etc
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with (CI/CD) orchestration and software configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef)
• Ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Working knowledge/experience with Makefile/make

Responsibilities

• Building, integrating and maintaining tools and infrastructure facilitating internal development and testing
• Improve maintainability of build system
• Evaluate new tools
• Improve speed of information back to the development team within the build systems and processes
• Troubleshoot and resolve systems and network issues
• Adherence to infrastructure-as-code principles
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Participate in the design and implementation of new systems and infrastructure projects

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a relevant experience subject
• Experience with monitoring systems (e.g. Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, DataDog)
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, XenServer, RHEV, QEMU/KVM)
• Experience with any of the following: Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Grafana, Artifactory
• Exposure to FPGA build projects
• Exposure or experience with Vivado (Xilinx)