Solutions Engineer, Network Automation - Arista AVD Team

Arista Networks; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company is seeking a Solutions Engineer with a strong background in network automation. The role involves collaborating with teams to develop best practices, maintain automation frameworks, and enhance CI/CD processes. Candidates should have excellent communication skills and a degree in Computer Science or related field, as well as experience with Git and orchestration tools. The position offers a competitive salary range from $125,000 to $175,000 CAD per year, along with benefits and bonuses.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Income protection

Group Retirement Savings Plan

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in network automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with orchestration tools and CI/CD tooling.
• 5+ years working with network technologies, including deployments in multi-domain environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop software for network configurations and improve integration with CloudVision.
• Maintain test infrastructure and assist with customer engineering projects.
• Contribute to the AVD community by reviewing issues and participating in team brainstorms.

Skills

Communication skills

Network automation

Git

Ansible

CI / CD tooling

Network design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Job description

We are seeking a talented and experienced Solutions Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have an extensive background in network automation and contribute to developing the Arista AVD network automation framework and integrations with CloudVision.

You will be part of a global team of network automation experts, with a mission to modernize and transform how our customers design, build, and operate their networks. Working in partnership with the customer engineering team and product managers, you will assist in developing network design best practices across multi-domains : data center, campus / wifi, wide area networks, and service providers. You will then develop software to generate network configurations, documentation, and tests supporting the various design types.

You will work closely with solutions engineering, customer engineering, and software engineering teams to create new features, fix software defects, and improve the quality of the solution.

What You'll Do

• Work on strategic initiatives for Arista AVD and CloudVision CI.
• Develop and maintain test infrastructure (CI / CD tooling).
• Actively participate in the AVD community (internal and external) by : Reviewing GitHub issues and pull requests.Provide Q&A support on various channels (Google Chat, Slack, etc).Participate in conversations with various teams to brainstorm new ideas and ways to improve the customer engineering teams to contribute to AVD projects.
• Update and maintain project documentation.
• Help maintain solutions engineering lab and test infrastructure.
• Additional job duties based on interest : Create sales demos, proof of concepts, and product with developing and delivering Arista CI papers / talks for conferences (AutoCon / RedHat Summit / Nanog, etc).Participate in sales webinars to present and demonstrate the solutions.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• 3+ years of experience in network automation, Infrastructure as code / NetDevOps.
• Experience with using source control : Git, GitHub, GitLab.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Ansible.
• Experience with CI / CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• 5+ years’ working experience with network technologies, including network design and deployments of Campus, Data Center, and WAN networks. Knowledge of leaf-spine architectures is highly desired.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent experience.

Additional Information

• Arista AVD :
• Arista Networks AVD on GitHub :

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $125,00 to $175,000 across Canada. 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.