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.

This position will entail responsibilities such as maintaining, upgrading, and configuring physical and virtual servers and devices in a significant global satellite communications system. You will make extensive use of automated configuration and deployment tools such as Ansible to accomplish this. Your duties may also include making design changes to deployment and test workflows, automating redundant tasks to simplify the end user experience. You will support the development, test, and production teams, ensuring the systems are in a working and up-to-date state for current and future releases. Other engineering support duties may include analysis, remediation, and documentation of networking hardware, operating systems, and system software security vulnerabilities.

• Update server configurations using Ansible and related tools
• Configure, Integrate, and Test new COTs software packages with updated OS versions
• Test, Fix, Resolve, and Document software and hardware-related issues with new releases
• Fix LAN-related issues on all layers of the OSI stack
• IA remediation of Linux OS's, network equipment, and related applicable software
• This is a hybrid role located at our main campus in Carlsbad, CA, (relo assistance provided)
• US Citizenship is required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• 5+ years of experience with Linux systems administration, configuration, and IA remediation
• 3+ years of experience working with TCP/IP network administration and fixing
• 3+ years of experience with automated configuration deployment tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• 3+ years of experience with using version control software such as Git and Perforce
• Strong working knowledge of one or more of: Python, Bash, Groovy

• Experience with modern DevOps procedures

• Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, etc

• Excellent Software & Systems design, problem solving, and debugging skills

• Experience with CI/CD tools and methodologies such as: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Ansible etc

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

• Some work experience with virtualization technologies such as ESXI, OpenStack, etc

• Proficiency fixing issues in Linux and Windows server environments

• Some Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

• Some Experience working with various test tracking and bug tracking tools such as Jama and Jira

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.