Our Vision is to change the way the world communicates. Our Mission is to connect people and things.
We are reimagining the way people watch TV with services like Sling and AirTV. We are redefining the boundaries of communication and connectivity too, with our planned green field 5G cloud native network build out and the Internet of Things. Nothing is out of our reach, and the opportunity to shape the future of entertainment and technology has never been more tangible.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
About the position
Our mission is to build a modern, hybrid cloud enterprise platform for all DISH to consume. Our environment is
Complex
Highly elastic
Based on some latest and greatest cloud native technologies
Very fast paced
Your team will be
Building a cloud native, web scale platform and the tooling that surrounds it
Enabling CI/CD pipelines for a large complex set of diverse applications
Building a next generation cloud platform based on Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Consul and Vault.
Driving a customer centric, highly personalized approach to the evolution of our platform
Delivering Big Data Pipelines using Kafka, ELK Stack and AWS as foundational components
Delivering software in an agile environment, continuously
Helping application development, operations, testing & infrastructure teams realize what being "cloud native" is all about
Helping operations & infrastructure realize what this new environment is all about and get them to a level of comfort with it
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Skills, Experience and Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need to be
Highly motivated, driven & hard working
Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud-based production system, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems.
Build, release and configuration management of production systems.
Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services.
System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.
Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.
A true believer in cloud native, hybrid cloud and continuous deployment
Comfortable with scripting & using a Git repo for code management
Evaluating new technology options and vendor products.
Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions.
Basic Requirements:
A successful Manager - Platform engineering will:
Be available to work onsite out of our American Fork, UT or Englewood, CO offices
Have a 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, master's degree is preferred or equivalent professional experience
Overall more than 10+ years experience in software engineering with 5+ years leadership experience.
Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools for APM, Infra, Browser, Synthetic (e.g. Nagios, PagerDuty, Zenoss, NewRelic).
Experience building and managing large, highly available enterprise grade applications
Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka & the Elastic Stack
AWS: 4+ years' experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, EMR, S3, Redshift, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, KMS, Kinesis Streams) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on Well Architected Framework.
Have 2+ years of experience building and managing hybrid cloud platform supporting large, highly available enterprise grade applications
Scripting Skills:
o AWS Infrastructure-as-a-Code using Terraform scripting.
o Strong scripting (e.g. Python, shell) and automation skills.
Operating Systems: Linux/Ubuntu system administration.
Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
Industry certifications on DevOps, Cloud Platforms, Kubernetes is highly desirable
Technologies in our environment:
Here are some key technologies that make up our environment. While we do not expect you to have a detailed understanding of each, the more of these you are familiar with the better.
