About us: What you'll do:

• Oversee the planning, scheduling, and control of software releases, ensuring smooth transitions from development to production.
• Planning and Scheduling: The Software Deployment and Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for planning the release of project deliverables and managing the release lifecycle. This includes coordinating schedules and resources required for successful releases.
• Coordination: They act as a liaison between various teams, including development, testing, and operations, to ensure that all aspects of the release process are aligned and communicated effectively.
• Risk Management: Identifying potential risks that could delay releases and implementing strategies to mitigate these risks is a crucial part of the role.
• Deployment Oversight: The Release Manager leads the deployment activities, ensuring that software is released according to the planned schedule and meets quality standards.
• Continuous Improvement: They are also responsible for supervising the progress of releases, finding issues, and continuously improving the release process to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

The day-to-day:

• Communicating key project commitments, plans, changes and requirements to airline and relevant teams
• Managing risks that may affect release scope
• Ensuring releases stay within budgets and requirements
• Providing weekly updates on release activities
• Resolving issues regarding release quality and schedule
• Identifying any project dependencies that could alter the course of release

What you'll need:

• Release Management Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and deployment automation platforms
• Project Management: Agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, and project coordination frameworks
• Technical Understanding: Software development lifecycle, testing methodologies, and infrastructure concepts
• Communication Skills: Stakeholder management, cross-team coordination, and executive reporting
• Risk Management: Risk assessment, contingency planning, and issue escalation procedures
• Process Improvement: Lean principles, continuous improvement, and metrics analysis
• Compliance Knowledge: Regulatory requirements, audit procedures, and change management
• Incident Management: Crisis communication, rollback procedures, and post-incident analysis
• Ability to travel up to 10%

What will help you on the job:

• Coordinating release schedules across engineering, product, test groups, operations, and field teams
• Managing release documentation including versioning, release notes, and certification artifacts
• Tracking release readiness across multiple hardware/software configurations
• Validating pre-deployment documentation and confirming all requirements are met before field installation

• Implementing rigorous version control and model management practices
• Maintaining configuration baselines for different customers and working with the team to understand configuration drift
• Understanding A/B partition schemes for the modem and rollback procedures for the server

• Coordinating with the airline program team, PTE and third party manufacturing for retrofit and new factory software
• Maintaining traceability of features for software releases
• Supporting regulatory audits with deployment records

• Working with operations teams to understand and delivery methods for OTA (SSLK, Config, Helm, MUD, etc.)
• Coordinating secure transmission of software packages for non-OTA installations
• Tracking deployment status across fleet installations
• Managing phased rollouts and monitoring for issues
• Coordinating emergency patches and critical updates

• Work with CE for aligning fixes for post-release defects
• Coordinating rollback procedures when issues are detected
• Utilizing staged rollout functionality to limit blast radius of issues when needed

• Familiarity with OTA update mechanisms and secure firmware distribution
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git) and branching strategies
• Basic understanding of cryptographic signing and secure boot
• Awareness of A/B partition schemes and failsafe update mechanisms

• Understanding of aerospace/maritime operating environments
• Understanding of field deployment constraints (bandwidth, connectivity, installation windows)

• Excellent communication skills for interfacing with technical and non-technical teams
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and resolve issues with limited information
• Experience coordinating across engineering, operations, and customer-facing teams
• Strong organizational skills for tracking complex multi-system deployments

• Experience with release management tools (Jira,Artifactory, Git)
• Understanding of SDLC phases and gate reviews
• Familiarity with documentation systems and change management processes
• Ability to create and maintain releases with desired experience in Monday.com

Salary range: $120,500.00 - $190,000.00 / annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $149,500.00- $224,500.00/ annually : At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits. EEO statement: