Site Reliability Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

About us

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.

What you'll do

The Customer Engineering team is a group of highly technical engineers who are tasked with maintaining and developing the reliability, scalability, and performance of the Service to different Enterprise Customers. The Customer Engineering Team is empowered to drive technical resolutions across the technology stack from hardware through to application and all stops in between. The team is also responsible to build and maintain Alerts to proactively monitor the service and act as the technical liaison between Customer facing teams and the Engineering teams.

The day-to-day

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will :

• Identify and investigate potential and actual customer performance problems, recommend, and prioritize remediation, and assess effectiveness of remediation actions
• Participate in and provide feedback on product design, especially regarding reliability and availability
• Drive initiatives with partner teams to improve the reliability and performance of the Service through improved system design
• Drive a culture of intolerance to manual activity which results in a highly automated environment delivering scalable solution
• Work Closely with Customer facing teams (Technical Account Mangers and Program Teams) to understand and prioritize the Customer issues
• Drive monitoring and automation initiatives
• Create and present Performance reports for technical and management stakeholders
• Work closely with Engineering teams to communicate and prioritize the service impacting issues
• Reproduce and test the Customer issues in the Lab
• Develop Automated scripts and tools to Enable monitoring of the Service
• Be part of on-call rotations

What you'll need

Requirements

What will help you on the job

Tell employers what skills you have

Troubleshooting

Remediation

Scalability

Product Design

Hardware

Wireless

Reliability

System Design

Networking

Python

Routing Protocols

Kibana

GCP

Technical Liaison

Genetics

VPN