Datacenter engineer - Carlsbad

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The Mobility lab team is responsible for the creation of new environments, as well as the operational support of existing ones. Viasat works closely with other lab datacenter engineers to ensure reliable, compliant, and operational labs that Viasat's developers and customers can use. Requests are received daily for new labs as well as fixes and improvements to these labs and it is the responsibility of the Mobility lab team to fulfill such requests.

The Datacenter engineer will help build and maintain new mobility test and development labs for the internal and external customers. In addition, the engineer will build out and maintain the internal infrastructure and systems that provide the services the mobility labs are built. This requires integration with existing network and deployed systems and documenting the as-built procedures as well as a framework for supporting the deployed systems. You will work directly with other datacenter engineers to deploy these systems as well as cross-team with professionals from other functions that will assist in network integration.

Examples of day to day tasks include:

• Install and configure hardware and software, rack servers, switches, routers, and power distribution units (PDUs), and run cables
• Linux and windows administration
• Security posturing and implementation
• Network monitoring and management
• Datacenter operations

• Troubleshooting and triaging of system alerts for mid-level issues.
• Ability to work closely with the other team members to provide the right tooling to measure the reliability of our systems
• Experience with typical application landscape within an enterprise data center environment
• Experience with implementing and maintaining virtualized environments (e.g. VMware)
• Strong experience with Linux and Windows system administration including security and patch management.
• Solid understanding of networking principles including networking protocols, basic routing, ports, and firewalls
• Experience with supporting hardware (HP servers, NetApp storage, and multi-vendor network devices) in virtualized environments
• Discover opportunities for automation by identifying manual, repetitive, tactical operational workloads and develop automation scripts, tools, and/or frameworks to optimize and standardize.
• Ability to work across multi-functional teams
• Can function Independently for tasks assigned
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in heterogenous environments for engineers and customers
• Exceptional organizing and time-management skills
• Ability to work on a geographically distributed team
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Travel up to 10%

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
• One or more related technical certifications A+, Linux+, or Cisco Certified Network Associate, AWS or similar.
• Scripting experience using Python, JavaScript, REST or equivalent language.
• VMWare or AWS/Cloud experience
• Knowledge or experience with tools such as Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Docker
• Satellite/Wireless modem test experience

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.