Description

DISH is transforming the future of connectivity. We’re doing it by building the country’s first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from scratch. The foundation of a connected world, it’s a network free of the limitations of the past, and flexible enough to satisfy all the social, economic and transformative needs of the changing world.

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 
     

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

Key Skills
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