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# Team Lead, Connectivity Management - Aviation Edge Software (MAS)

- **Company:** Viasat, Inc.
- **Location:** Tempe, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,000.0 - $265,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Linux, Network Address Translation, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Python (Programming Language), Session Management, Software Engineering, System Programming, TCP/IP, Computer Networking Systems, Containerization, Integration Tests, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Iptables, Multiaccess Edge Computing, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/87733805/1

## About the Role

* 7+ years of hands-on software engineering (Go, Python, or Java) with systems programming in Linux
 * 2+ years leading a cross-functional software team in an agile/DevOps, including distributed time zones
 * Strong networking fundamentals: DHCP, DNS, NAT, iptables, TCP/IP, Layer , etc
 * Experience with distributed systems where state synchronization failures have real production SLA consequences
 * Hands-on Linux, systemd, and containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes)
 * Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, * Experience building automated integration test frameworks for distributed systems (not just unit tests)
 * Experience modernizing a legacy stateful system incrementally in production (feature-flagged migration, dual-run)
 * Familiarity with aviation or embedded edge platform constraints - resource-limited hardware, over-the-air software delivery, regulatory environments
 * CI/CD experience with Github Actions or Jenkins
 * Modern AI-enhanced development workflow

## Description

You will lead the Connectivity Management team within Viasat's Commercial Aviation platform, responsible for the software that gets passengers and crew devices onto the network aboard commercial aircraft. Your team owns the core onboard session management stack running on the Mobility Access Server. When a passenger mobile device connects mid-flight, your software is what makes it happen.

This is a multi-year architectural modernization, not a maintenance role - you'll help shape how a mission-critical, resource-constrained system evolves in production.

This is a sitebased role, employees work 3+ days (60%+) per week from a Viasat office or work location within a standard fiveday workweek.
The day-to-day

What you'll lead:

 * A geographically distributed team of engineers and architecture stakeholders
 * Design, implementation, and production ownership of onboard connectivity services
 * A multi-year architectural modernization of the session management stack
 * Quality improvements: automated testing pipelines to catch session-management faults before they reach aircraft
 * Observability: per-component resource budgets and structured metrics to ground systems
 * Cross-team integration with other engineering teams and organizations


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