AWS Senior Cloud Engineer

Department Summary

DISH is a Fortune 200 company that continues to redefine the communications industry. Our legacy is innovation and a willingness to challenge the status quo, including reinventing ourselves. We disrupted the pay-TV industry in the mid-90s with the launch of the DISH satellite TV service, taking on some of the largest U.S. corporations in the process, and grew to be the fourth-largest pay-TV provider. We are doing it again with the first live, internet-delivered TV service – Sling TV – that bucks traditional pay-TV norms and gives consumers a truly new way to access and watch television.

Now we have our sights set on upending the wireless industry and unseating the entrenched incumbent carriers.

We are driven by curiosity, pride, adventure, and a desire to win – it’s in our DNA. We’re looking for people with boundless energy, intelligence, and an overwhelming need to achieve, to join our team as we embark on the next chapter of our story.

Opportunity is here. We are DISH.

DISH is building out its Cloud capabilities for supporting Network Data Applications and Pipelines in the AWS cloud. This initiative within the Network Data and Analytics department aims to automate, design, deploy and test the various CI/CD pipelines, and implement application and data security controls in the cloud. The AWS Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for developing automated tools and processes, deploying, securing, and monitoring containerized and serverless applications, and automating repetitive processes and jobs in an AWS Cloud Environment.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide AWS Infrastructure and Systems Administration functions to include support of products and services such as IAM, EC2, S3, AWS Networking & Content delivery (VPC, IGW, NGW, ALB, NLB, CloudFront, etc.) and core Security: Security Groups, Cloud Trail and WAF

• Assist with the design and development of a multi-account, multi-region, highly available and highly automated AWS environment to support full software development life cycle and production of mission-critical applications (LakeFormation, CodePipelines, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation / Terraform / AWS CDK)

• Understand and contribute to the creation of system support documents and operational procedures

• Reactively troubleshoot outages, perform root cause analysis, and execute continual service improvements.

• Drive automation and monitoring of containerized and serverless deployments

• Implement MLOps for existing and new analytics applications 

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Skills, Experience and Requirements

• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
• Strong Cloud Native Fundamentals
• Will have considerable AWS and Linux skills, and DevOps skills around CI/CD and experience with tools such as GitLab (deploying using runners, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and writing skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels
• Extensive experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Containers
• Experience in Agile / Scrum Methodologies

Education and Work Experience:

• 5+ years working with all core AWS Infrastructure Services

• 2-3 years working with AWS Security, and fluency with the AWS APIs/command-line tools

• Strong knowledge of AWS & Big Data Engineering Technologies

• Spark, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Airflow, AWS Kinesis, AWS Lambda, ElastiCache

• Experience implementing /maintaining security for cloud-based systems /applications in AWS

• Configuration and managing databases such as PostgreSQL, Druid, Redis, Etc.

• Experience centrally monitoring systems for alerts and incident management functions 

• Scripting language experience (Python, Javascript, etc.), Strong working knowledge of AWS automation tools such as CloudFormation / Terraform / AWS CDK

• Should possess one or more of the following certifications – AWS Certification(s) Solutions Architect, DevOps, SysOps and/or Security Architect

• High Energy, Problem Solving & Curious Attitude

Salary Range

Compensation: $106,250.00/Year - $143,750.00/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.