Arista Technical Lead Network Engineering

Position Overview:

Our rapidly evolving IT Network department is seeking a Senior/Technical Lead Network Engineer with deep expertise in Arista Networks solutions and campus networking technologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing deploying and managing both data center and enterprise campus networks leveraging Arista hardware and software such as Arista Validated Designs (AVD) CloudVision Portal (CVP) Network Detection and Response (NDR) and AGNI (Arista Guardian for Network Identity).

This role will also involve implementing Arista WiFi Network Access Control (NAC) and enduser authentication/certification strategies ensuring a secure and seamless network experience.

Our Impact:

• We assure Stability Availability and Reliability for 10000 EndUser Devices to support a wide range of applications in a hybrid Cloud environment

• We strive to prevent service impacts in a multifaceted and constantly evolving ecosystem assure rapid recoverability from any impacts to business and services

• Our strategy is to transform the Network with Automation and Process Engineering

Your Impact:

• Provide technical leadership in the Campus Network area and to think and execute proactively to ensure the scalability stability and security of the platform

• Identify Influence and Implement technology and processes to modernize our Network Infrastructure

• Collaborate with Network leadership to assure visible communication risk reduction and accountability for the performance and stability of the Campus network platforms

Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience of Network Engineering; College Degree or equivalent experience

• 8 years in a senior level engineering role engaged with IP network technologies with Expertlevel experience with BGP OSPF ISIS EVPN VXLAN MPLS and segment routing.

• Implement SDWAN and hybrid cloud networking solutions for enterprise connectivity.

• Automate network configurations using Arista AVD Ansible Python and Terraform.

• Utilize Arista CloudVision Portal (CVP) for network telemetry automation and lifecycle management.

• Implement AIdriven network monitoring and analytics for proactive issue detection and resolution.

• Manage device compliance and software upgrades through automation pipelines.

• Deploy NDR (Network Detection and Response) solutions for realtime threat visibility and mitigation.

• Implement network segmentation and micro segmentation to enhance security.

• Ensure compliance with industry security frameworks such as NIST CIS and Zero Trust Architecture.

• Enforce rolebased access control (RBAC) MACsec and secure onboarding policies.

• Must have a solid sense of accountability for performance and continued improvement of

• Communicates well within the team to effectively relay status and accomplishments to management

• Must not only lead current technical trends but also anticipate our future state technologies

• Arista Certifications (ACEL2 ACEL3 or equivalent).

• Experience working with multicloud networking (AWS Azure GCP).

• Familiarity with highperformance campus networking architectures (leafspine SDAccess fabricbased designs).

• Exposure to multivendor environments integrating Arista with Cisco Palo Alto etc.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Communicates and influences optimally.

• Demonstrates deep job specific knowledge and best practices to drive effective change and transform how work is performed.

• Elevates team members via mentoring and knowledge sharing. Highly effective team leader. Top influencer for other IT and business partners.

• Meaningful contributions to strategy and objectives. Knowledge leadership in all areas of expertise for areas of responsibility. Thinks beyond individual sphere.

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