Senior VMware Systems Engineer

Job Duties and Responsibilities

A Senior Systems Engineer with Dish Wireless will be directly working in environments supporting automated deployment and management on a VMWare cloud native environment. This role will work directly towards increasing automated recovery and zero touch provisioning using tools like: Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab, Jenkins, and more.

Primary Responsibilities:

Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentor junior engineers and new team members, and apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
Develop highly available, fault-tolerant platform/cloud infrastructure designs and solutions
Establishes standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of platform/cloud infrastructure, including backups, upgrade, and automation processes
Install, test, and administer virtualization using VMware and Hyper-V tools or similar interfaces
Implement and maintain the computer systems so they are compliant with the organization’s guidelines or SOP (Standards Operating Procedure)
Participate as first responder to critical incidents, ensuring rapid technical response
Create and maintain technical documentation and standard operating procedures
Develop automated responses to incidents so that manual intervention is not necessary
 

Skills, Experience and Requirements

A successful Senior System Engineer will have the following at a minimum:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; two years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
4 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools
Direct experience with administering multiple VMware products across multiple remote locations and data centers
2 or more years experience in programming using one or more of the following: Java, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, or advanced Shell scripting
Preferred additional experience:

Understands concepts of Infrastructure-As-Code, automated deployments, and cluster management within a CI/CD Pipeline
Has provided lower-tier support for:
Bare-metal and virtual machines
Cloud-native environments
Network equipment
Experience with VMWARE infrastructure in an enterprise environment
Experience in Kubernetes regarding containers / Microservices principles
Disciplined practice of producing, maintaining, and versioning system documentation
 

Benefits

Employee Stock Purchase
Term Insurance
Accident Insurance
Health Insurance
Training Reimbursement
Gratuity
Mobile and Internet Reimbursement
Team Outings