Platform Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, develop and deploy business software at scale to telecom customers worldwide.
• ▹Deploy and maintain 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.

Requirements

• ▹Experience with Kubernetes and Docker (using and administration, including deployment of Kubernetes or K3S).
• ▹Developing and maintaining Helm Charts and Dockerfiles.
• ▹Deploying solutions in different environments (OpenStack, Proxmox, bare metal).
• ▹Experience with the 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 or GitLab Actions.
• ▹Developing tests in a TDD approach with the Behave testing framework.
• ▹Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to adjust the messaging to the audience.

Nice to have

• ▹Experience influencing application modernization and migration to cloud platforms.
• ▹Worked with cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP.
• ▹Broad knowledge of 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 with and extending them (Claude Code skills, etc.).
• ▹Experience documenting microservices-based system architectures via modeling diagrams and transitioning them to implementation teams.

Soft skills

About the company

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovation. It makes equipment, software and systems to plan, deploy, certify, monitor and optimize networks for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers.