Senior VMware Systems Engineer

Company Summary
DISH Network Technologies, an EchoStar company, has been reimagining the future of connectivity for more than 40 years. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products and now we are building America's First Smart Network™.
Today, our brands include EchoStar, Hughes, DISH TV, Sling TV, Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile.
Department Summary
Our Wireless Technology organization is at the forefront of transforming connectivity for the future. We're pioneering the development of the nation's first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from the ground up. This network represents the cornerstone of a truly connected world, unbound by the constraints of the past and adaptable to meet the diverse and evolving needs of our rapidly changing society, economy and technology landscape.
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