Virtualization engineer job description

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


DISH Wireless is looking for a highly motivated SRE to be part of the 5G T team. As an SRE Specialist you will be part of the implementation team to automate and monitor infrastructure deployment, improving CI/CD practices.

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for working closely with DISH cloud partners on disaggregated scalable architecture and loose coupling between hardware and software to create automation tools and processes for network testing, monitoring and data collection to improve network reliability and availability.

Key Responsibilities:

Implementation of strategies to optimize the network Life Cycle Management (LCM) to maximize service reliability
Measure and improve Reliability Metrics (SLO/SLI), implement Observability tools (Monitoring, Logging-Tracing solutions), manage Ops process (Incident, Problem Mgmt) and streamline release management Increase network performance through system design reviews, and process improvements
Implement methods to minimize and eventually eliminate all manual interventions to deploy zero touch software-defined infrastructure (IaC), removing errors and inconsistencies Deploy automation tools to operate, monitor, and maintain highly available geo redundant network services in a hybrid cloud environments
Write software to automate API-driven tasks at scale and contribute to the workflow engines Assist in building the required tools to configure and update infrastructure and applications using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices and policies
Implement tools for Configuration Management and automated monitoring of all infrastructure Proactively identify potential trouble spots and create mitigation strategies


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Skills, Experience and Requirements



Master's Degree and 6+ years of Development and Operations related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience At least 3+ years of experience working in a modern engineering services team where you've built and extended an automated CI/CD pipeline Relevant experience as SRE would be an added advantage Hands on experience with Kubernetes and container deployment Knowledge of available tools landscape for monitoring and operations such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform or another configuration management / orchestration suite Experience in writing code using Go or Python Knowledge of Linux-OS Internals and administration Experience on at least one of the Cloud computing Infrastructure - GCP / Azure / AWS preferred Knowledge of PaaS tools such as ELK stack, Kafka etc. Ability to work independently with minimum supervision


Salary Range


Compensation: $87,500.00/Year - $125,000.00/Year

Benefits


From versatile health perks to new career opportunities, check out our benefits on our careers website .

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test.

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


DISH Wireless is looking for a highly motivated SRE to be part of the 5G T team. As an SRE Specialist you will be part of the implementation team to automate and monitor infrastructure deployment, improving CI/CD practices.

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for working closely with DISH cloud partners on disaggregated scalable architecture and loose coupling between hardware and software to create automation tools and processes for network testing, monitoring and data collection to improve network reliability and availability.

Key Responsibilities:

Implementation of strategies to optimize the network Life Cycle Management (LCM) to maximize service reliability
Measure and improve Reliability Metrics (SLO/SLI), implement Observability tools (Monitoring, Logging-Tracing solutions), manage Ops process (Incident, Problem Mgmt) and streamline release management Increase network performance through system design reviews, and process improvements
Implement methods to minimize and eventually eliminate all manual interventions to deploy zero touch software-defined infrastructure (IaC), removing errors and inconsistencies Deploy automation tools to operate, monitor, and maintain highly available geo redundant network services in a hybrid cloud environments
Write software to automate API-driven tasks at scale and contribute to the workflow engines Assist in building the required tools to configure and update infrastructure and applications using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices and policies
Implement tools for Configuration Management and automated monitoring of all infrastructure Proactively identify potential trouble spots and create mitigation strategies


#LI-LL1


Skills, Experience and Requirements



Master's Degree and 6+ years of Development and Operations related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience At least 3+ years of experience working in a modern engineering services team where you've built and extended an automated CI/CD pipeline Relevant experience as SRE would be an added advantage Hands on experience with Kubernetes and container deployment Knowledge of available tools landscape for monitoring and operations such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform or another configuration management / orchestration suite Experience in writing code using Go or Python Knowledge of Linux-OS Internals and administration Experience on at least one of the Cloud computing Infrastructure - GCP / Azure / AWS preferred Knowledge of PaaS tools such as ELK stack, Kafka etc. Ability to work independently with minimum supervision


Salary Range


Compensation: $87,500.00/Year - $125,000.00/Year

Benefits


From versatile health perks to new career opportunities, check out our benefits on our careers website .

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test.

10+ years of experience

Active TS/SCI

CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification

Experience with VMware vCenter 6.7/7.0 implementation and support

Experience with data center installation/upgrades for VMware environments to include vCenter and ESXi hypervisors

Understanding of networking fundamentals for switching/routing and experience configuring vSwitches and ESXi host networking

Experience with VMware storage integrations, particularly with NAS based storage solutions.

Experience with migrating workloads from on-premises environments into clouds such as AWS or Azure

Experience with vRealize Suite (vRA, vROPs, vRLI, vRNI)

Experience with managing work tasks via tools such as JIRA and ServiceNow

Experience with developing baseline configurations for ESXi hosts including the implementation and maintenance of security standards, specifically DISA STIGs

Experience automating routine tasks via PowerShell

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA VA Chantilly

Additional Work Locations:

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