Platform Engineer
About the job
- A Bachelor's degree is required.
- Fluency in English and Spanish is required.
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker administration, including deploying Kubernetes or K3S.
- Experience developing and maintaining Helm charts and Dockerfiles from scratch.
- Experience deploying solutions in OpenStack, Proxmox, and bare-metal environments.
- Experience with the GitOps approach and ArgoCD or FluxCD.
- Software development knowledge in at least one of Python or Bash; Go and Java are advantageous.
- Strong Linux administration skills, including managing network configuration, users, permissions, and debugging issues.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD environments using Atlassian Bamboo, Azure DevOps, or GitLab Actions.
- Experience developing tests using a test-driven development approach and the Behave testing framework.
- Design, develop, and deploy business software at scale for telecom customers worldwide.
- Deploy and maintain solutions in various infrastructure environments.
- Verify technical feasibility and validate solution options against requirements.
- Align with product and development teams to provide training, knowledge transfer, and subject-matter expertise.
- Translate business requirements into systems designs, including high availability and disaster recovery.
- Communicate effectively in written and oral form and adjust messaging for the audience.
- Experience influencing application modernization and migration to cloud platforms.
- Experience working with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Broad knowledge of systems logging, monitoring, and telemetry, including ELK, Grafana, or Prometheus.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps concepts and tools, including X-Ray (Artifactory), Trivy, CIS, Nessus, Sealed Secrets, SOPS, OWASP, or Renovate.
- Familiarity with generative artificial intelligence tools, including extending Claude Code skills.
- Experience documenting microservices-based system architectures with modeling diagrams and transitioning those architectures to implementation teams.
About the company
VIAVI Solutions provides test, measurement, and assurance products for networks and services, along with optical security solutions. It serves mobile operators, governments, enterprise networks, and infrastructure contractors, offering hardware and software tools to design, deploy, monitor, and verify network performance and security. Unlike many competitors, VIAVI combines breadth across telecom networks with optical security capabilities and serves a global customer base, enabling end-to-end validation and protection of critical infrastructure. The company’s goal is to help customers deploy and operate reliable, high-performance networks and services while ensuring security and compliance.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Chandler, Arizona
Founded
1923
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Fiscal 2026 revenue reached $1.518 billion, up 40%, driven by data-center demand.
- Q4 FY2026 NSE revenue hit $353.9 million, up 69.2%, with Spirent contributing $47.7 million.
- VIAVI won $1.1 million SHIELD-6G funding and PCI-SIG Gold Suite acceptance in 2026.
What critics are saying
- January 2026 restructuring cut 5% of staff, proving VIAVI still carries excess cost.
- NSE depends on hyperscaler spending; a capex pause would hit revenue in 2027.
- Traditional wireless testing stays soft; losing one large data-center customer would crush growth and multiples.
What makes Viavi Solutions unique
- VIAVI couples Spirent assets with TestCenter for Ultra Ethernet and 1.6T AI-fabric validation.
- Vertex 6.0 emulates 6G and Wi-Fi 7/8, spanning cellular, military, and aerospace.
- CyberFlood CF50 and Xgig PCIe 6.0 create one vendor stack for security and compliance.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
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7%VIAVI Solutions has won a US Army contract to supply its T/Rx software defined transceiver system for Army test ranges. The Army's Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO) will use it to recreate the electromagnetic conditions of the modern battlefield. The ranges are part of the Test Range Private Industry Initiative, which opens five range facilities to commercial developers of drones, counter-drone systems, long-range fires, and low-cost interceptors. Companies without government contracts can use them. At Camp Grayling, one of the sites, the T/Rx supplied on demand the electronic warfare conditions seen in Ukraine during a September 2026 test. The unit is compact, rugged, and generates and collects signals at the same time.
Viavi Solutions has launched the CyberFlood CF50, an all-in-one platform for testing application performance, security and artificial intelligence inference at speeds up to 100G. The 1U appliance combines Layer 4-7 traffic generation, security assessment and AI inference testing in a compact format. The platform enables network equipment manufacturers, systems integrators, service providers and enterprises to evaluate network and security infrastructure before deployment. It produces realistic encrypted and mixed application traffic whilst supporting Zero Trust architectures. Viavi claims the CF50 offers the industry's lowest power consumption, native post-quantum cryptography support, and TLS performance 1.75 times that of its nearest competitor. The platform features a web-based interface and supports automated goal-seeking and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
VIAVI Solutions' Network and Service Enablement segment delivered strong fourth-quarter results, with revenues reaching $353.9 million, up 69.2% year over year and exceeding guidance of $340-$348 million. The data centre ecosystem is now a key growth driver, with demand coming from semiconductor companies, optical module manufacturers, and hyperscalers. The company benefits from migration toward higher-speed networking, with 800G as the current volume driver and 1.6-terabit technology expected to fuel growth in coming quarters. Integration of Spirent product lines strengthens VIAVI's portfolio in high-speed Ethernet and network validation. For the first quarter of 2027, management expects NSE revenues of $360-$368 million with operating margin at 23.1%. However, risks include soft traditional wireless testing demand and reliance on continued data centre investment.
Paul McNab, executive vice president and chief marketing and strategy officer of Viavi Solutions, sold 11,032 shares of common stock on 11 September 2026 for approximately $429,917, according to an SEC filing. The transaction was executed at a weighted average price of $38.97 per share. The sale represented 30% of McNab's holdings before the transaction. Following the sale, McNab retains 25,639 shares held directly, valued at approximately $993,511 based on the closing price of $38.75 per share. Viavi Solutions, based in Chandler, Arizona, provides network testing and monitoring solutions. The company reported trailing twelve-month revenue of $1.5 billion and has a market capitalisation of $9.6 billion.
Laura Black, a director at Viavi Solutions, sold 71,000 shares of common stock for $3.3 million on 17 August 2026, according to an SEC filing. The transaction represented 50% of her direct equity stake in the company. Following the sale, Black retains 71,497 shares valued at approximately $3.31 million. The shares were sold at a weighted average price of $46.12. Viavi Solutions provides network testing, monitoring, and assurance solutions to telecommunications service providers, equipment manufacturers, and government organisations. The company operates through three business segments: Network Enablement, Network Intelligence, and Optical Security. The company maintains a market capitalisation of $11.4 billion despite reporting a trailing twelve-month net loss of $30.4 million on revenue of $1.5 billion.