Company Description
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data centre, campus and routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack.
Arista was founded by industry luminaries Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda and David Cheriton, launched in 2008 and is led by CEO Jayshree Ullal. Its seasoned leadership team is globally recognized as respected leaders and visionaries with a rich and extensive history in networking and innovation.
The company went public in June 2014, is listed with NYSE (ANET), and currently has more than 9,000+ cloud customers worldwide.
Job Description
The Role
Here's what to expect from joining the Arista UK team as a Graduate System Engineer
Work closely with the Arista Systems Engineers, Advanced Serviced, Sales and TAC teams.
Actively participate in projects that help improve the effectiveness of the team.
Gain first hand pre-sales and advanced services work experience.
Help develop and build new product demonstrations, test and proof-of-concept networks.
Troubleshoot network issues.
Support and contribute to customer and partner meetings.
Be proactive and contribute to innovation at Arista with your ideas, vision and energy!
Training & Development
The role will balance formal training classes, with the objective of obtaining Arista ACE certification, with on-the-job work experience, working alongside your experienced colleagues in the systems and advanced engineering teams.
You will also be able to participate in the regular and frequent product and technology updates provided by the whole Arista engineering community. You will speak and meet regularly with an assigned mentor and your manager and have ample opportunity for feedback and coaching.
Working Environment & Culture
The Arista Way
Drive for customer success in every aspect: support, quality, innovation and experience.
Do the right thing be it for products, quality, customers and daily interactions.
Challenge the status quo, question traditional habits and be cost-effective.
Develop alternative ways of achieving disruptive innovation in every function, preserving quality.
Develop agile and mobile teams that can respond to priorities (as opposed to fixed or top-down organisations).
Maintain the highest level of integrity in conduct.
Discuss, debate but quickly align to priorities.
Treat your peers, vendors, customers with respect and develop a win-win partnership.
Mentor individuals and develop teams for overall success, not personal success.
Cultivate Arista pride but never ego or arrogance in our culture.
What we are looking for
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals with the following characteristics:
Passionate about technology, love to talk about innovation and are always keeping up with the latest technology news.
A strong communicator with the confidence to engage and talk to a wide range of people in many different situations
Someone who embraces real-life challenges and can think and act creatively to solve them.
Approaches situations with an open and curious mind, taking on challenges with an eye for opportunity.
In terms of qualifications and experience, the perfect candidate for this role will possess many of the following:
Recently completed or in the final year of a BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science (with a significant networking component) or Computer Networking related program.
Good working knowledge with programming/scripting (C++, Java, Python, Perl, JavaScript, shell) is a plus
It’s desired that you will have a good understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols, including:
Wired and Wireless networking technologies such as IEEE 802.3 and 802.11.
Layer 2 bridging/switching networking technologies such as Spanning Tree, etc.
Layer 3 routing, including IP addressing, routing protocols such as OSPF, ISIS and BGP.
… and more importantly how these technologies work together in a modern network.
Working knowledge of network simulation platforms such as EVE-NG, GNS3, Netsim or ContainerLab is preferred.
Knowledge and experience of common programming data structures and markup languages (HTML, JSON, YAML, etc.)
Exposure to Virtual machine containers and Cloud Computing solutions.
Basic understanding of Linux.
Qualifications
Recently completed or in the final year of a BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science (with a significant networking component) or Computer Networking related program.
All candidates will need to be a UK Permanent Resident with unlimited right to work in the UK.
This will be a hybrid working position and, as such, requires a suitable home working environment along with the ability to travel to key customer locations around the UK and especially central London.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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