Cloud Engineer

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We  believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, 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 standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

Who You’ll Work With

The Cloud team is responsible for handling the production cloud 24*7 for WiFi. This team manages the cloud end to end i.e. deployment, security, compliance, billing, automation development, CI-CD pipelines, support, monitoring, customer interactions, etc., This is a global team where people work from different geographic locations in different timezones. The basic business purpose of this team is to manage the cloud around the clock and ensure its availability and best efficiency for the customer.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you are responsible for managing the Cloud infrastructure, applications, and customers. You will also collaborate with teams located globally to design and implement solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Manage cloud infrastructure as per the documented processes and guidelines - Make sure that all the security practices have been taken into account in the production cloud environment 
• Deploy various architectures in the cloud based on the requirements - Automate infrastructure using Lambda or Cloud Functions/Python/Shell Scripts - Install, configure, and manage Linux servers 
• Analyze and resolve problems associated with OS, hardware, and applications - Maintain system backups and other infrastructure assets on the cloud - Maintain system configurations as per the standard baselines and fix any deviations - Provisioning, daily operations, and monitoring of resources on AWS, GCP - Work with service provider’s support to resolve problems 
• Automate the daily required repetitive tasks
• Change management/Incident Management

• BSc, MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering with 2-7 years of post graduate work experience managing staging/production environments 
• Working knowledge of AWS services i.e. EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Route53, VPC 
• Working knowledge of GCP services i.e Compute, Storage, Security, IAM, GKE, etc - Strong OS administration skills on Linux 
• Experience with networking and network/system security 
• Strong troubleshooting skills to handle outages, restore services 
• Shell scripting / Python 
• Experience with Ansible / Docker 
• Experience with monitoring solutions (e.g. Prometheus, Nagios) 

Certifications (will be considered a plus) 

• GCP Certified Associate Cloud Engineer 
• AWS Certified Cloud Associate
• RHEL and CCNA

This is a 12-month fix term contract position. The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $89000 to $140000.

Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location.

The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. Employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, income protection and a Group Retirement Savings Plan. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.