Platform Engineer

Job Title

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customers' most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets.We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Duties And Responsibilities

Designing, developing and deploying business software at scale to telecom customers worldwide.

Deploying and maintaining solutions in various infrastructure environments.

Verify technical feasibility and validate solution options for the requirements.

Align with product and development teams on providing training, knowledge transfer and subject matter expertise.

Translate the company's business requirements into systems design, including high-availability and disaster recovery.

Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with the ability to adjust the messaging based on the audience.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements

Experience with Kubernetes and Docker (Using & Administration, including deployment of Kubernetes or K3S).

Developing and maintaining Helm Charts and Docker files from open.

Deploying solutions in different environments (OpenStack, Proxmox, Bare Metal).

Experience with GitOps approach and ArgoCD/FluxCD.

Software development knowledge of at least one of these programming languages: Python, Bash (Go, Java can be an advantage).

Strong Linux Administrator skills (managing network configuration, users, permissions, debugging various issues).

Experience with Infrastructure as Code with tools like Terraform/Ansible.

CI/CD environment creation and maintenance using Atlassian Bamboo/Azure DevOps/Gitlab Actions.

Developing tests in a TDD approach – Behave testing framework.

Bonus Points For

Experience influencing application modernization and migration to cloud platforms.

Worked with cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP.

Broad knowledge in systems logging, monitoring and telemetry (ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).

Knowledge of DevSecOps concepts and tools - X-Ray (Artifactory), Trivy, CIS, Nessus, Sealed Secrets, SOPS, OWASP, Renovate.

Familiarity with GenAI tools, working and extending (Claude Code skills, etc.).

Experience documenting microservices based, system architectures via modeling diagrams and effectively transitioning those architectures to implementation teams.