Engineer I - Systems

Department Summary

DISH is a Fortune 250 company with more than $13 billion in annual revenue 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 DISH satellite
TV service launch, 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.

In 2015, SLING redefined America’s relationship with live TV. Six years later, we remain one of the
country’s most influential inventions and driving forces behind the cord-cutting phenomenon. We’ve
achieved our success by filling our offices with people invested in the medium they’re building.
 
Our teams are challenging the status quo and reimagining streaming capabilities. From product
development to software design to big data and beyond, our people play vital roles in connecting
consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
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.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Delivering physical and virtual infrastructure to support the entire Sling TV service.

• Maintaining a highly available nationwide network of videodelivery and metadata systems.

• Meeting and exceeding the requirements of our customers with highly reliable and high performance infrastructure systems.

• Continuing our efforts to realize a robust hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

• Have 5+ years of professional enterprise infrastructure engineering experience, building and managing highly available enterprise grade networks.
• Have 5+ years of experience with network infrastructure including most of the following components:
  • Routers / Switches (Arista & Brocade)
  • Firewalls (Palo Alto)
  • Load Balancers (F5, Brocade)
  • AWS Networking
  • Wireless (Aruba)
• Have 5+ years of experience with the following networking technologies:
  • Routing Protocols (BGP & OSPF)
  • VRFs, VLANs, VRRP, LACP, MLAG
  • TACACS / Rancid / GIT
  • IPSec VPN
  • DNS / DHCP
  • NAT / SNAT
  • IP Multicast
  • VPC, Transit Gateway, NAT Gateway, ALB/ELB, Security

Groups

• Follow Network Architecture standards
• Experience scripting to automate infrastructure tasks (Python, Bash, other)
• Have a Working knowledge of Linux networking constructs
• Have a 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information
• Technology/ Engineering OR equivalent professional experience

 
Here are some of the 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.  In order of importance for this position.     

• Compute: VMware, Cisco UCS, AWS

• Web scale, distributed systems

• Storage: Pure Storage, Isilon, AWS

• Network: Arista, F5, Palo Alto, AWS

• Programming Languages: Python, Bash, Go, Java, etc

• Core Data services: Confluent Stack, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Redis, etc.

• Core platform services: Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Consul, AWS, Jaeger, gRPC, Istio, GCP,  NGINX, Varnish, etc

• CI/CD & DevSecOps tools: Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, OWASP, Vault, Salt Stack, Terraform,  etc.

• Automated testing of applications, Continuous Integration (CI), TDD, and/or BDD

• Highly self-motivated, driven & hard working.

• Not afraid to fail or share your perspective.

• An active learner.

• A believer in data driven decisions.

• Able to work independently and clearly present results and recommendations.

• A team player.  We have a great group of diverse folks working together in harmony.  Big egos and “super heroes” need not apply.

Salary Range

Compensation: $57,400.00/Year - $94,300.00/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.