Senior Cloud Engineer

Department Summary

At DISH, our technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. 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.

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 of the 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 for a large complex set of diverse applications

• Enabling the core platform services for our organization to consume – AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, service discovery, DNS, IPAM, load balancing, private cloud, etc

• Build & Manage advanced AWS services like SSO, Organization, Service Catalog, Step Functions, Account Factory, Control Tower - Landing Zone

• Building a next generation cloud platform based on Docker, Kubernetes, Consul and Vault

• Driving a customer centric, highly personalized approach to the evolution of our platform

• Maintain, optimize cloud platform hosting massive, complex systems for performance, security, reliability and scalability

• Innovate automation capabilities in the cloud platform and create new feature sets as per the application patterns for hosting in cloud

• Helping application development, operations, testing, delivering software in an agile environment, continuously. Supporting infrastructure teams realize what being “cloud native” is all about

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Technologies in our environment:

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.

• AWS / Google Cloud / Azure
• Cloud Native tools: Kubernetes / Docker / Rancher / Consul / Vault / Jenkins / Terraform / Helm / gRPC / Istio / Envoy/ Kong/ Linux
• CI/CD & DevSecOps tools: Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Atlassian Cloud, SonarQube, ArgoCD, Fortify, OWASP
• Observability: New Relic, Prometheus, Kiali, Calico, Jaeger, Logz, Grafana
• GoLang, Java, Python, JavaScript, Typescript, Node JS
• SaltStack / Chef / Ansible / Puppet (Optional)
• Confluent Stack / Kafka / ELK Stack / Couchbase / Cassandra / RabbitMQ / PostGreSQL / Elasticsearch
• Automated testing of applications & Continuous Integration / TDD / BDD
• CI / CD & DevOps Culture
• 12 Factor Applications
• Serverless / Function as a service concepts, implementations & patterns

Basic Requirements:

A successful Senior Core Platform Engineer 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, or relevant equivalent professional experience

• Have 5+ years of professional enterprise development, operations, SRE, platform, and/or infrastructure experience

• Have experience building and managing large, highly available enterprise grade cloud based platforms 

• Experience building Infrastructure as Code using Cloud Formation and Terraform

• Experience with AWS Control Tower and Service Catalog

Salary Range

Compensation: $106,250.00/Year - $164,450.00/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.