Cloud Engineer

Company Summary

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business spans satellite television service, streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, 5G wireless consumer and commercial services, internet and other enterprise products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Department Summary

Our Wireless Technology team is transforming the future of connectivity by building and enhancing the country’s first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from scratch. Our network is free of the limitations of the past, and flexible to satisfy all the social, economic and transformative needs of the changing world.

Job Duties And Responsibilities

As a Cloud Engineer I at Boost Mobile, you will play a critical role in the support of enterprise scale environments hosted on the public cloud. You will be part of a fast paced and dynamic engineering team supporting all public cloud platforms. The cloud engineer 1 role will support both automation level and resource level incidents. You will help ensure development software workflow and systems management integrate together and achieve the objectives of reliability, flexibility and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Work in tandem with our internal and external customers to identify and implement proper cloud based solutions
• Demonstrate exceptional problem solving skills
• Help ensure cloud compute uptime, scalability, and maintainability.
• Champion managing cloud environments in accordance with cloud best practices and security guidelines
• Assist with automated backup and recovery of systems running in the cloud environments
• Participate in an on-call rotation that provides 24x7 platform support
• Lead vendors through feature tracking and prioritization
• Stay technically curious, research and implement new technical solutions
• Support integration with multiple cloud service providers
  
  

Skills, Experience And Requirements

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; six years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 2 or more years experience supporting public cloud platforms
• 2 or more years experience with cloud system integration, support, and automation
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

• Must have excellent verbal and written communications
• Operational understanding of EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, SSM, SG, VPC, R53
• Operational experience with Infrastructure as code solutions and tools, such as: Ansible, Terraform, and Cloudformation
• Conceptual knowledge of DevOps and agile methodologies
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage tight deadlines
• Proven track record of operational process change and improvement
• AWS certifications (Associate level and higher) a plus
• Kubernetes certifications a plus
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Operational experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash)
• Operational experience with s3 CLI and API scripting
• Operational experience with middleware and telecom
• Operational experience with Linux distributions
• Operation experience with Ethernet, TCP/IP, routing protocols and general network communications
• Operational experience using or migrating continuous integration (CI) and continuous integration (CD) pipeline solutions or tools, including Git, Jenkins, CodePipeline, and CodeCommit
• Operational experience of virtualization and containerized orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes and Docker (including disconnected installation, Kubernetes administration, and Kubernetes troubleshooting)
• Operational experience with Kubernetes networking, load balancing, pod security
• Operational experience of Kubernetes operational building blocks (Kube API, Kube Scheduler, Kube Controller Manager and etcd)
• Operational experience with Linux systems administration, networking, and troubleshooting
• Operational experience with, but not limited to, EC2, ALB/NLB, S3, IAM, Auto-Scaling, CloudWatch, RDS, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora, Elastic Search, SSM, KMS, Kinesis, SNS, and SQS
• Operational experience with infrastructure or application automation
• Operational experience with IaC technologies like Terraform and Cloudformation, including activities around automated server and network configuration
• Operational experience supporting cloud hosted systems in a 24x7 environment including troubleshooting incidents, identifying root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventative measures
• Operational experience with observability tools such as Datadog, ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus
  
  

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $72,000.00/Hour - $103,400.00/Hour

Benefits

We 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.

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. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.