Sr Solutions Architect Viasat Government

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.

Viasat is seeking a driven Network Engineer to take part in our mission of Connecting defense through expanding our communications, networking, and security into sophisticated network operations in SDN, SD-WAN, SD-LAN, and low observable transports, that enables Hybrid Cloud access and AI/ML driven network operations for high capacity, resilient, and intuitive networks.

What’s the day-to-day like for this candidate?

Key Responsibilities:

• Autonomously lead programs and multi-functional teams on complex and high-yield opportunities that span multiple business areas  
• Overall technical responsibility for customer solution engineer through leadership, agile planning, systems engineering approach, and completion of contract work while identifying and mitigating risks, and collaborating with program customers.  

• Work independently  to identify and convey needs of the customer / client to business development, engineering and program staff. Communicate benefits of new technology and novel integration to the clients.
• Display proactive and flexible dedication committed to projects, with ability to both delegate to engineering staff as well as dive into details, assisting in areas of weakness.  

• • Own the performance measurement and improvement of our customer’s experience on the Viasat Government Segment.
  • Contribute as a leader with a point of view with the ability to guide others in resolving complex issues.  
  • Implement expert knowledge of collaborative/consultative working and leadership style, relying on common sense and personal competence for persuasion and consensus building.
  • Work with business area management to assess market and product offerings and opportunities. Represent the overall engineering perspective on the business area's ability to meet cost and schedule market requirements.  
  • Steer technical feasibility decisions regarding new products/projects.

• 10+ years’ experience in networking appliance and services delivering integrated products and software development
• Experience leading multi-disciplined engineering execution with team over diverse geographical locations
• Proven ability to lead proposal efforts and participate in ongoing business development
• Demonstrated understanding and experience contributing across product life cycle
• Experience with requirements management and product management toolsets (Jenkins, Github, Jira, PLM software) or DoD equivalent
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 50%
• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or computer science
• US Citizenship
• DoD US Top Secret/SCI Clearance

• In depth knowledge of US Special Operations Command systems, acquisition cycle, and technical roadmaps
• MS in Engineering (EE, CE, CS)
• SD-WAN / SD-LAN experience with focus on network function virtualization (NFV), network slicing, and network orchestration.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate, CompTIA Network+ certification or equivalent knowledge / experience
• Experience with complex government mission systems and service acquisition
• Knowledge of low-level OS and CPU features such as multi-threading, virtualization, synchronization and memory management on Linux or Linux-like Operating Systems
• Prior experience working with container technology such as Docker/Kubernetes
• Background working with cloud platforms including Amazon, Openstack, Microsoft’s Azure, and Google Cloud Platform  
• Familiarity with encryption products / processes / architectures  
• Knowledge/Experience of commercial and military satellite communications systems and programs

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.