One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 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.
Job Responsibilities
Our team is responsible for ensuring Viasat’s next-generation Satellite meets all modern cybersecurity standards. We serve as a design resource, a test resource, and a risk management resource to all of the software teams which make up Viasat’s Space & Commercial Networks division.
In this role you will help design and build secure commercial systems, applications and products as well as maintain and improve their security posture. You’ll work with IT Security and many other security-focused resources across the organization. Our day-to-day work spans from researching new crypto algorithms (“post quantum algorithms”) to software implementation of today’s security modules, test and validation, and automation of secret rotation and expiry.
You'll be exposed to meaningful, high-visibility, business-impacting projects and will gain exposure to all facets of information security via interactions with various security teams. You'll also have the ability to make security design decisions to help accomplish project goals. Additionally, you will gain exposure to leading-edge security and application technologies. See below to learn more about the tools which will make you successful in this role and on our team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional security engineering experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience working in a DevSecOps environment
- Ability to assess risk and balance project requirements against necessary security controls
- Experience with security architecture and frameworks
- Systems Engineering experience with complex, scalable, distributed systems infrastructure and technologies
- US Citizenship required
Preferences
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- Public cloud security expertise including Amazon, GCP and/or Azure
- Compliance experience, such as PCI, ISO, SOX, MPA, or NIST
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, SANS, or related security certification
- Professional experience conducting threat modeling assessments and risk assessments
- Solid understanding of PKI core concepts and technologies
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning concepts applied to a security environment
- Ability to influence and history of working on projects to success
- Demonstrated ability and interest to learn new technologies
- Deep security best practices skillset
- Ability to obtain a US Secret and above clearance