Arista Industry Readiness Program (2025)
- Full-time
Company Description
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.
Job Description
Who You'll Work With
The Arista Industry Readiness Programme is an industry-first programme that gives you the unique opportunity to intern in a hands-on learning based programme that lasts 5-6 months and is run annually out of our Sydney office.
Over the course of these months, you will learn, practice, test and be tested of various networking technologies starting from the absolute basics to complex networking technologies.
What You'll Do
Program Summary:
Objective: To prepare early career network engineers for the Cloud Networking Industry
Approach:
- Base program is tried and tested with over 10 iterations run by Arista globally.
- We enhance the impact by customising it each year for the specific target group
Program outline
Phase 1: Strong foundation in networking protocols and technologies.
Exposure to the basics of networking from the scratch
Involves refresh, unlearning, if required and re-learning
In-depth understanding of the basic and foundational technologies:
Layers of Networking, Transceivers & Cables, ARP, MAC, IP addressing
L2 Technologies: Switching Fundamentals, STP, LACP, LLDP
L3 Technologies: Routing Fundamentals, RIP, OSPF
Practical approach and hands on lab
Dedicated static lab topology - lab work
Develop in-depth understanding by taking packet captures and wireshark analysis
Phase 2: Introduction to Arista platforms. Deeper dive into industry trends and technological advancements
Application of knowledge gathered through projects
Problems from real world scenarios meeting industry requirements
Opportunity to enhance and utilise programming and scripting skills
Understand evolution of Arista products per requirements
Products encompass deep buffers, low latencies, growing speeds to cater varying industrial demands
EOS Architecture and integration to support next generation cloud and enterprise DCs.
Phase 3: Advanced technologies/protocols. Shadowing
Leverage basic knowledge to learn advanced technologies
Advanced protocols (VxLAN, BGP, xSTP, multicast routing)
Arista’s implementations to solve complex industry challenges ( MLAG, FHRP, Cloud Vision, Telemetry Technologies)
Shadow Technical Solutions Engineers
Opportunity to partner with TSEs to solve live issues
Investigating and analysing the data for a given problem
Active contribution by replicating problems and validating the fix
Brainstorming about potential problems and solutions
Talks from experts
Leaders from systems engineering on the industry and deployments
Qualifications
Target Audience:
Masters in a related Computer Networking field.
Early career (1-4 years) network engineers keen to dive deep into the technical side of things.
Current and future network engineers with a thirst and curiosity for why and how something works as much as what it is used for.
Additional Information
Benefits
- Global company and market leader
- Fantastic workplace culture
- Flexible working arrangements
- Great career prospects
- Excellent facilities with modern tools of the trade