Application Systems Programmer

Company Description Kacific is a fast-growing broadband satellite operator headquartered in Singapore with a footprint across the Asia, Oceania and the Pacific Islands. Our mission is to make a meaningful impact by bringing affordable, high-speed satellite broadband to underserved and remote communities, improving access to healthcare, education, and government services. We pride ourselves on being a dynamic, diverse, and mission-driven team. Our culture values initiative, collaboration, and a strong sense of purpose—delivering infrastructure freedom and empowering the communities we serve. Founded by Christian Patouraux, and developed by a core team of senior satellite professionals in 2013, Kacific is backed by a group of investors with experience in global telecommunications and infrastructure. Our first Ka-band high throughput satellite, Kacific1, launched in 2019 to stream high-speed, low-cost, ultra-reliable broadband to rural and suburban areas of the Pacific and South East Asia. Kacific is a wholesale business selling to telecommunications operators, internet service providers, governments and other service providers. Role Summary As a Application Systems Programmer , you’ll join a hybrid team of network and operations engineers focusing on automating network operations across Kacific’s terrestrial and satellite infrastructure. You’ll develop tools, scripts, and workflows to streamline the deployment, configuration, and monitoring of our network—enabling faster, safer, and more resilient service delivery. This is an ideal role for someone with a strong interest in both networking and coding, who enjoys solving operational problems with scalable and reusable solutions in a real-world, high-impact environment supporting critical infrastructure across Asia Pacific. Key Responsibilities Network Build & Implementation Collaborate with senior engineers to design and implement automation for network provisioning and change workflows. Build and maintain internal tools and scripts to support network deployment, configuration, monitoring, and diagnostics. Contribute to the development and maintenance of infrastructure-as-code for repeatable network builds. Operations & Troubleshooting Integrate with network management platforms and controller APIs (e.g. Cisco, Juniper, MikroTik, Fortinet, TP-Link, Grandstream, and other cloud-managed systems). Assist with building CI/CD-style automation pipelines for network changes and compliance. Maintain configuration templates and version-controlled network documentation (e.g. Git, NetBox). Perform Level 1–3 troubleshooting of network issues alongside senior engineers, involving routing, switching, DNS/DHCP and/or VPNs and incorporate findings from root cause investigations into subsequent automated recovery sequences. Performance & Monitoring Administer the inhouse network management platforms and systems to monitor bandwidth, latency, and packet loss and overall service performance. Assist in supporting network deployments and service migrations in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external vendors. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of networking technologies relevant to Kacific’s hybrid infrastructure (terrestrial + satellite). Automation Write scripts and reusable modules (e.g. Python, Ansible, Shell) to reduce manual effort and human error. Leverage RESTful APIs to integrate with monitoring tools, ticketing systems, and network controllers. Analyse operational tasks and propose automation to optimize troubleshooting, failover handling, or alerting. #J-18808-Ljbffr