Principal Engineer - Network

About Dish

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.

Your Role and Responsibilities Infrastructure Engineer/Architect are key interfaces to Clients (DISH/Sling engineering) teams and are responsible to develop convincing technical solutions. This requires for them to work closely with clients for multiple partners - vendor teams to architect the solution.

Job role requires sound technical knowledge, proven business acumen and differentiating client interfacing ability. Infra engineers are required to anticipate, create and define an innovative technical solution which matches customer's needs and DISH's tactical and strategic requirements.

Configuration and Troubleshooting Responsible for planning, designing, integrating and driving large-scale routing, switching firewall, load-balancer, CDN, solutions. Manage complex project. Act as a final contact for any technical issue for the DISH engineering teams. Drive Critical/Major incidents and involve in RCA preparations. Responsible for planning and capacity management of network infrastructure. Responsible for implementing DR & Chaos engineering solutions and performing periodic tests. Responsible for addressing performance and replication related issues.

Core Tasks

• Own the assessment, development, implementation, optimization, documentation of a comprehensive, broad set of security technologies and processes, data protection, key management, identity and access management (IAM), network security within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other infrastructure environments
• Hands on: Routers/Switches (Arista & Brocade), Firewalls (Palo Alto), Load Balancers (F5, Brocade), AWS Networking, Wireless (Aruba)
• Networking technologies: Routing Protocols (BGP, EIGRP & 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, ACL, HSRP, VRRP, SNMP, DHCP
• Implementation, Decommission, Upgrades, Updates of switch/route, firewall, LB, etc.
• Manage, hardware, IOS, coordinating with vendors/partners for support
• Keep the all network physical equipment and virtual infrastructure up to date with right security patches and plan regular maintenance to keep them up and running
• Manage CDN, Links, VPN technologies, SDN, SDWAN and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Review technology designs, architecture, taking local and regional regulatory requirements into account for Voice, Video Solutions, Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Firewalls, NGFW, NAT, IPS, Botnet, Application Control, DDoS, Web Filtering
• Understand and apply Palo Alto Firewall / Panorama, Big-IQ, NetbBrain tools/technology standards to daily support and enhance performance, improve reliability
• Create a real-time contextual living map of Sling’s network with detailed network specifications, including diagrams, equipment configurations with defined standards
• Bring in the practice of Network As Code on all current network devices and new implementations - Write Once, Execute Anywhere
• Improve the reliability of the service, bring in proactiveness to identify and prevent impact to customers by eliminating Single Point of Failure (SPOF)
• Capture critical forensic data, provide complete visibility across the enterprise, for security incidents as soon as a threat is detected, by implementing tools like NetBrain.

Basic Qualifications

• Have a 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, master’s degree is preferred or equivalent professional experience
• Industry certifications on Switching, Routing, Security is an added advantage
• 10+ years of Network operations support experience (with 6+ in a large enterprise)
• For architect additional exposure in design, manage Hybrid cloud infra, rearchitecting the DC environment to synergise with AWS cloud and modernising the NW landscape is required
• For Principal engineers managing / leading a team of 5 or more is preferred

Other Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good communication skills to interact with team members, customers, and managers
• Leadership skills to guide and mentor the work of less experienced team members
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team