Hiring: Cloud Engineer (Containers Focus) Company: Viasat Location: Carlsbad, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:18:02 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Agile, Angular, Ansible, ArgoCD, Azure, Bash, Bootstrap, CI/CD, Cassandra, Django, Docker, EKS, ELK Stack, Flask, GCP, Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Grafana, HBase, Heroku, Hive, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Ionic, JavaScript, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, MariaDB, Microservices, MongoDB, MySQL, OpenShift, OpenTelemetry, PostgreSQL, PowerShell, Prometheus, Puppet, Python, RDS, Rancher, React, Root Cause Analysis, SQL Server, Scrum, Shell, Systems Integration, Terraform, Vault, Vue, Windows Server About the job Experience: •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. •5+ years of hands-on experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher), and monitoring solutions. Required Skills: •This is a site‑based role in the Viasat Carlsbad, CA location. Employees work 3+ days (60%+) per week from a Viasat office or work location within a standard five‑day workweek •Manage infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain automation scripts (Python, Bash, Shell, YAML, JavaScript etc.) and tools to streamline & improve infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and management processes, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). •Monitoring & Observability: Establish robust monitoring and logging foundations collaborating with the wider Site Reliability Engineering Function and ensure platform reliability and performance using the standard application performance management tools. •Security: Incorporate security protocols and ensure compliance of the platform with industry standards. •Incident Management: Participate in out of hours on-call rotation, help fix platform related incidents and implement post incident improvements to prevent recurrent issues. •Partner cross-functionally with multi-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high-quality solutions. •Automate the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of our OpenShift clusters through creation and deployment of custom pipelines •Participate in the review of new cluster configurations and pipelines to ensure they achieve their intended result in a non-disruptive manner Compensation: •$121,000 - $191,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!