Arista Industry Readiness Program (2025)

Who You'll Work With

The Arista Industry Readiness Programme is an industry-first programme that gives you the unique opportunity to intern in a hands-on learning based programme that lasts 5-6 months and is run annually out of our Sydney office.

Over the course of these months, you will learn, practice, test and be tested of various networking technologies starting from the absolute basics to complex networking technologies. 

What You'll Do

Program Summary:
 

Objective: To prepare early career network engineers for the Cloud Networking Industry

Approach:

• Base program is tried and tested with over 10 iterations run by Arista globally. 
• We enhance the impact by customising it each year for the specific target group

Program outline
Phase 1: Strong foundation in networking protocols and technologies.
 

• Exposure to the basics of networking from the scratch

  • Involves refresh, unlearning, if required and re-learning

• In-depth understanding of the basic and foundational technologies:

  • Layers of Networking, Transceivers & Cables, ARP, MAC, IP addressing

  • L2 Technologies: Switching Fundamentals, STP, LACP, LLDP

  • L3 Technologies: Routing Fundamentals, RIP, OSPF

• Practical approach and hands on lab

  • Dedicated static lab topology - lab work

  • Develop in-depth understanding by taking packet captures and wireshark analysis

Phase 2: Introduction to Arista platforms. Deeper dive into industry trends and technological advancements

• Application of knowledge gathered through projects

  • Problems from real world scenarios meeting industry requirements

• Opportunity to enhance and utilise programming and scripting skills

• Understand evolution of Arista products per requirements

  • Products encompass deep buffers, low latencies, growing speeds to cater varying  industrial demands

  • EOS Architecture and integration to support next generation cloud and enterprise DCs.

Phase 3: Advanced technologies/protocols. Shadowing

• Leverage basic knowledge to learn advanced technologies

  • Advanced protocols (VxLAN, BGP, xSTP, multicast routing)

  • Arista’s implementations to solve complex industry challenges ( MLAG, FHRP, Cloud  Vision, Telemetry Technologies)

• Shadow Technical Solutions Engineers

  • Opportunity to partner with TSEs to solve live issues

  • Investigating and analysing the data for a given problem

  • Active contribution by replicating problems and validating the fix

  • Brainstorming about potential problems and solutions

• Talks from experts

  • Leaders from systems engineering on the industry and deployments

Target Audience: 

• Masters in a related Computer Networking field. 

• Early career (1-4 years) network engineers keen to dive deep into the technical side of things.

• Current and future network engineers with a thirst and curiosity for why and how something works as much as what it is used for.

Benefits

• Global company and market leader
• Fantastic workplace culture
• Flexible working arrangements
• Great career prospects
• Excellent facilities with modern tools of the trade