Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Viasat is a global communications company focused on delivering high-capacity connections for consumers, businesses, governments, and militaries. The Cloud Engineer will support the design, architecture, procurement, deployment, and operation of Linux- and Windows-based infrastructure across on-premises and public cloud environments, with a primary focus on AWS and Linux. The role will contribute to CloudOps, DevOps, infrastructure security, automation, platform enhancements, documentation, and technical support.
Responsibilities
- Provide subject matter expertise to project, delivery teams and IT Operations unit
- Contribute to the implementation of proactive infrastructure security features, patches, and upgrades using an Infrastructure-As-Code approach to achieve secure, stable, and reliable services
- Actively lead in the development and establishment of cloud services capabilities encompassing CloudOps / DevOps practices
- Document infrastructure and work instructions for systems and applications hosted under Cloud stacks
- Provide leadership and knowledge sharing across the team to support the ongoing development of cross team operational support functions
- Review and oversee platform enhancements
- Execute implementations to tight deadlines, working well both independently and as part of a team
- Taking ownership of projects gaining a personal satisfaction in achieving high performing environments
- Communicate technical concepts to non-technical staff and the business
- Govern our technologies to ensure security standards are met
- Working in a DevOps capacity with a desire to automate everything
Skills
- Technical expertise in Cloud Engineering role focusing on Amazon Cloud Services (AWS)
- Proven track record of overseeing IT/Cloud service delivery
- Strong infrastructure background (Linux/Windows) and hands on exposure to Cloud and automation technologies
- Hands-on Automation experience leveraging tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef Etc
- Professional scripting experience with languages such as PowerShell, Python, and BASH
- Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment & amp; Orchestration - Jenkins or one of its variant
- Experience with virtualization and containerization - VMware, Hyper-V, Docker, VirtualBox, Kubernetes
- Sound knowledge and experience in creating platforms using Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace
- Experience with log management tools such as ELK
- AWS certification is highly preferred
- Vendor certifications from Red Hat, Microsoft etc
Benefits
- Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
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