DevOps Engineer

Viasat, Inc. • Carlsbad, CA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team! In this position you will be working with novel technology to develop and support a cloud native global satellite communication network. You will be working in an engineering team consisting of software, development operations, and systems engineers. You will be collaborating with software development and network engineering teams in analyzing, automating, and deploying software, operating system, and security updates to a large-scale satellite communications system. You will be responsible for software bug and security vulnerability life-cycle tracking as well as system configuration management, and deployment automation. Your work will include development and maintenance of automated software test, build and deployment processes including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) of new software builds into both lab and cloud environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science or a related technical field.
• 3+ years work experience in systems engineering, software engineering, or development operations.
• 3+ years of work experience using, testing, and developing high-level scripts preferably with python and/or bash languages.
• Experience working with deployment automation and configuration management tools such Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform.
• Good working knowledge of software build process and automation principles.
• Familiarity with software development tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Make etc.
• Good working knowledge of Linux operating systems and being able to Administer a Unix/Linux servers.
• Working knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol and networking stack.
• Must be able to obtain a United States Secret Clearance
• US Citizenship required.
• Must be able to work out of our office in Carlsbad, CA; hybrid position.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years’ work experience working with software development, test automation, and/or CI/CD tools such as Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, ArgoCD, Make etc.
• Some experience with virtualization technologies such as ESXI, OpenStack etc.
• Work experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift, etc.
• Some experience using and/or administrating SQL database systems.

Responsibilities

• Building, deploying, and testing Helm Charts, ArgoCD applications, and/or Terraform configurations files.
• Development of procedures, scripts, and playbooks to automate the update of company software and cots application packages.
• Building software packages and deploying / testing them in containerized environments.
• Deploying automation for Linux operating system updates and patches.
• Deployment and Maintenance of AWS Infrastructure.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees