Platform Engineer

Viavi Solutions Inc.; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VIAVI Solutions Inc. seeks an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, develop, and deploy software for telecom customers worldwide. The role emphasizes Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, GitOps, ArgoCD, and Terraform across OpenStack, Proxmox, and bare metal.

Strong Linux admin skills, scripting in Python or Bash, and bilingual English/Spanish are required. You will build CI/CD pipelines, support cloud migrations, and collaborate with product and development teams on training and architecture

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• Fluency in English and Spanish.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker (K3S acceptable).
• Developing and maintaining Helm charts and Dockerfiles.
• Deploying solutions in OpenStack, Proxmox, or Bare Metal environments.
• Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD or FluxCD.
• Programming knowledge in Python or Bash (Go/Java an asset).
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/Ansible.
• CI/CD setup using Bamboo/Azure DevOps/GitLab Actions.
• Test development using Behave or similar BDD frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy software at scale for telecom customers.
• Deploy and maintain solutions across diverse infrastructure environments.
• Validate feasibility and options for requirements.
• Collaborate with product and dev teams for knowledge transfer.
• Translate business requirements into high-availability system designs.
• Communicate effectively with varied audiences.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

GitOps

ArgoCD

Linux

Python

Bash

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Helm Charts

Dockerfiles

OpenStack

Proxmox

Job description

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovations that has 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 & 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:

• Bachelor's degree.
• Fluency in English and Spanish.
• 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.

Must be based in Spain, ideally commutable to Barcelona or Madrid.

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