Senior VMware Systems Engineer

of our rapidly changing society, economy and technology landscape.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

A Senior Systems Engineer with Dish Wireless will be directly working in environments supporting automated deployment and management on a VMWare cloud native environment. This role will work directly towards increasing automated recovery and zero touch provisioning using tools like: Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab, Jenkins, and more.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentor junior engineers and new team members, and apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems

• Develop highly available, fault-tolerant platform/cloud infrastructure designs and solutions

• Establishes standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of platform/cloud infrastructure, including backups, upgrade, and automation processes

• Install, test, and administer virtualization using VMware and Hyper-V tools or similar interfaces

• Implement and maintain the computer systems so they are compliant with the organization's guidelines or SOP (Standards Operating Procedure)

• Participate as first responder to critical incidents, ensuring rapid technical response

• Create and maintain technical documentation and standard operating procedures

• Develop automated responses to incidents so that manual intervention is not necessary

Skills, Experience and Requirements

A successful Senior System Engineer will have the following at a minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; two years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 4 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools

• Direct experience with administering multiple VMware products across multiple remote locations and data centers

• 2 or more years experience in programming using one or more of the following: Java, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, or advanced Shell scripting

Preferred additional experience:

• Understands concepts of Infrastructure-As-Code, automated deployments, and cluster management within a CI/CD Pipeline

• Has provided lower-tier support for:

  • Bare-metal and virtual machines
  • Cloud-native environments
  • Network equipment

• Experience with VMWARE infrastructure in an enterprise environment

• Experience in Kubernetes regarding containers / Microservices principles

• Disciplined practice of producing, maintaining, and versioning system documentation

Benefits

• Employee Stock Purchase
• Term Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Training Reimbursement
• Gratuity
• Mobile and Internet Reimbursement
• Team Outings