CTH Data Engineer II

Department Summary
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.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
DISH Wireless is looking for a VMWare Engineer who will be 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.
In this role, you will:

• Mentor junior engineers and new team members, and apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
• Develop highly available, fault-tolerant VMware infrastructure designs and solutions
• Establishes standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of VMware infrastructure, including backups, upgrade, and automation processes

• Proactively identify and recommend updates to software or architecture as necessary before reaching capacity limitations
• Develop automated responses to incidents so that manual intervention is not necessary
• Champion system metrics (MTBF, MTTR, etc.) and convey them to decision makers on a regular basis
• Manage priority of issues and tickets and participate in rotating an on-call schedule with other members of the team, including weekends

Skills, Experience and Requirements
As a successful VMWare Engineer, you will have the following at a minimum:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; six years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 4 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools
• Direct experience in bare-metal deployments of VMware infrastructure
• Direct experience with building and 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

Salary Range
Compensation: $87,500.00/Year - $125,000.00/Year
Compensation and Benefits
We also offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits .
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check.