Arista Industry Readiness Program (2025)Type: Full-time
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 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 on 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 customizing 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 scratch, involving refresh, unlearning if required, and re-learning. In-depth understanding of the basic and foundational technologies:
Layers of Networking, Transceivers & Cables, ARP, MAC, IP addressingL2 Technologies: Switching Fundamentals, STP, LACP, LLDPL3 Technologies: Routing Fundamentals, RIP, OSPFPractical approach and hands-on lab workDedicated static lab topologyDevelop in-depth understanding by taking packet captures and Wireshark analysisPhase 2: Introduction to Arista platforms. Deeper dive into industry trends and technological advancements Application of knowledge gathered through projects, solving real-world problems that meet industry requirements. Opportunity to enhance and utilize programming and scripting skills while understanding the evolution of Arista products:
Products encompass deep buffers, low latencies, growing speeds to cater to varying industrial demandsEOS Architecture and integration to support next generation cloud and enterprise DCs.Phase 3: Advanced technologies/protocols. Shadowing Leverage basic knowledge to learn advanced technologies and protocols (VxLAN, BGP, xSTP, multicast routing). Shadow Technical Solutions Engineers to solve live issues:
Investigating and analysing data for given problemsActive contribution by replicating problems and validating fixesBrainstorming about potential problems and solutionsTalks from experts and leaders from systems engineering on the industry and deploymentsWho Should Apply: 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.
Benefits: Global company and market leaderFantastic workplace cultureFlexible working arrangementsGreat career prospectsExcellent facilities with modern tools of the trade #J-18808-Ljbffr
