DISH is hiring a Staff VMware Engineer

Department Summary DISH is transforming the future of connectivity. We’re doing it by building the country’s first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from scratch. The foundation of a connected world, it’s a network free of the limitations of the past, and flexible enough to satisfy all the social, economic and transformative needs of the changing world. Job Duties and Responsibilities A VMWare 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. In this role, you will: - 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 VMware infrastructure designs and solutions - Establishes standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of VMware infrastructure, including backups, upgrade, and automation processes - Proactively identify and recommend updates to software or architecture as necessary before reaching capacity limitations - Develop automated responses to incidents so that manual intervention is not necessary - Champion system metrics (MTBF, MTTR, etc.) and convey them to decision makers on a regular basis - Manage priority of issues and tickets and participate in rotating an on-call schedule with other members of the team, including weekends Skills, Experience and Requirements As a successful VMWare Engineer, you will have the following at a minimum: - Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; six years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience - 4 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools - Direct experience in bare-metal deployments of VMware infrastructure - Direct experience with building and 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 Salary Range Compensation: $100,100.00/Year - $143,000.00/Year Compensation and Benefits From versatile health perks to new career opportunities, check out our benefits on our careers website. Successful completion of a pre-employment screen, to include a drug test and criminal background check.