One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

Viasat operates a fleet of 20+ satellites to provide a wide range of global communications services for the maritime, air and land based communities.

The Satellite Operations Support Group (SOSG) provides day-to-day software support to the two Satellite Control Centres (SCC) based in the UK/NL and the US.

The Viasat SCC uses 2 main product for satellite control: I4S, a joint development between the SOSG Group and L-3Harris and Kratos Epoch product. As a result of product sales since 2000, I4S has a growing community of external users, who require maintenance and updates.

A system administrator is required to take up within the team the responsibility of the regular and long-term maintenance of the complete suite of hardware/software used by the Viasat SCC. The SatOps department has a range of Linux, Solaris and Windows servers used exclusively for Satellite Monitoring, Control and Analysis.
We are seeking services for the support of our hardware estate consisting of 100+ physical and virtual machines.

• General maintenance of Windows and RHEL machines – application installations/upgrades, performance monitoring and troubleshooting
• Co-ordinated and timely Installation of MS Updates (patches are released monthly)
• Management of users in Microsoft Active Directory
• Management of GPO’s (Group Policy Objects) Perform maintenance activities on all hardware Microsoft Windows servers and workstations
• Take responsibility for the SCC periodic data backups, monitoring the system performance/health
• Support for third party tools such as Simulators, BeyondInsight, GMV FocusSuite and Enhanced File Transfer as well as scripts and workflows required by the SCC teams
• Participation on the 24x7x365 on call rota

Clearance may be required from government bodies for access to secure data and facilities. The candidate must be willing to supply personal information, as requested, in support of any of these security clearances.

The candidate may be occasionally required to provide 24-hour on-call support; this function will require the carrying of a mobile phone. In event of an operational need whilst on-call the candidate would be required to arrive at the control centre within an hour of callout.

• Windows Server (2022,2016), Windows 7/10/11 desktop
• Microsoft Active Directory and GPO experience
• Knowledge of VMware vSphere ESX
• Experience with RHEL
• Some experience of HP/Dell hardware
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP networks, including routing equipment, plus general principles of data communications
• Some experience as a system administrator on high availability systems, but training will be provided

• Experience with:
  o HP hardware
  o RAID Arrays
  o EMC Storage solutions
  o Veritas Netbackup
• ServiceNow
• AWS
• Nagios XI
• Good PC skills with knowledge of MS Windows, MS Office, Database programs and Web based systems

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.