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.
What you'll do
The Maritime Platform team is focussed on providing top of class maritime connectivity solutions to our partners and customers across the global commercial maritime industry. As a member of this team, you will build up a vast knowledge in software development, state of the art networking, cloud application engineering, automation, data visualization, and container orchestration. You will work with various ground breaking technologies at multiple layers of the software stack to design, develop, deploy, and maintain the maritime connectivity service.
The day-to-day
This team is focused on building products and solutions that serve our customers needs and provide resilient connectivity solutions for both business and crew welfare. In this position, interns will be an integral part of an agile software development team and you will make meaningful impacts to the development of new product features that are in development and will be shipped to customers. Your responsibilities may include:
- Designing and developing software and infrastructure as code that is resilient and deployable and contributes to the creation of new products and services
- Building automated tests for new software features
- End to end defect investigation for live systems
- Contributing as an agile team member to group design session and team retrospectives
Internship programme details
- You will work onsite at the Viasat London office for the duration of your 12-13 week internship. Viasat embraces a flexible work environment and onsite/hybrid work is determined by individual roles and teams.
- To ensure equity across our intern population, intern compensation is pre-determined based on a variety of factors including: role, location, and final graduation date. Intern compensation is non-negotiable.
What you'll need
Education requirements
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math & Computer Science, and/or a related field
- To be eligible for this position you must complete your degree between December 2025 and Summer 2026
Internship dates
Additional requirements
- Previous experience with some of cloud technology, automation, machine learning, big data, full stack, embedded, applications, and/or Front-end development
- Authorized to work in the UK
What will help you on the job
- Previous experience in a software development and/or test related area:
- Experience with networking: UDP, TCP/IP, AMQP, DHCP, DNS, and/or REST
- Experience with programming languages/frameworks: Python, Java, Golang, C/C++, NodeJS, Angular, React, and/or Bash
- Experience with development tools: Amazon Web Services, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Puppet, CHEF, DataDog, Prometheus, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Linux
- Our ideal candidate values team work, communication, learning, adaptability, creativity, and ingenuity. They also enjoy working on challenging technical issues and use creative and innovative techniques to develop and automate solutions.
