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Arista Networks

Network Automation Engineer

full-time

AI overview

Develop automated test suites for large-scale network automation, ensuring high quality through continuous integration and collaboration across development and testing teams.

Who You’ll Work With

Arista Networks is seeking a talented and motivated Network Automation Engineer to develop automated test suites for our large scale, solution-based topologies. You will play a crucial role within our development and test teams, focusing on the timely qualification of our Arista EOS network operating system. Your primary responsibility will be to design, implement, and maintain robust automated test cases to ensure the highest quality standards for our Arista product lines. This role demands strong Python programming skills and a solid foundation in network engineering principles.

What You’ll Do

  • Contribute to the design and implementation of our network automation infrastructure, specifically focusing on the development of device classes and automated test cases.
  • Develop abstracted methods for provisioning and monitoring network devices.
  • Create extensible and easily maintainable automated test cases leveraging our abstracted device class methods.
  • Integrate automated test cases into our CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and continuous testing.
  • Monitor test execution, analyze results, and perform root cause analysis of failures, creating detailed bug reports as needed.
  • Collaborate closely with development and test teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and timely issue resolution.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 3 years of professional experience with the Python programming language.
  • Strong grasp of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles and design patterns, including abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, and composition.
  • Proven experience with automated testing methodologies and frameworks relevant to network automation.
  • Experience provisioning and monitoring network devices using various APIs (e.g. REST, Ansible, OpenConfig, gNMI).
  • Solid understanding of core networking protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, BGP, VLANs, VXLAN, EVPN).
  • Experience utilizing traffic generation tools (e.g. Ixia, Spirent) for testing purposes.
  • Proficient understanding of the Linux operating system.
  • Experience with Git version control.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD) is a plus.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, and collaboration skills.
Arista Networks

Arista Networks is the leader in software driven networking solutions for today’s largest Data Center (DC), Cloud, Internet/WAN, Service Provider (SP) and Campus environments. Arista has over 7500 customers ranging from the largest cloud providers, to healthcare, government, carrier, finance, education, and production web/SaaS companies. Arista's products are the foundation underpinning much of modern society's operations.Arista has ambitious plans and an unprecedented opportunity for growth and we are looking for many more engineers and designers to join us in building and innovating the world's networks. Arista is a profitable, publicly quoted company with revenues of over $2B with a culture of invention, quality, respect, and fun.

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