Senior Systems Engineer
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DISH is a Fortune 250 company with more than $13 billion in annual revenue that continues to redefine the communications industry. Our legacy is innovation and a willingness to challenge the status quo, including reinventing ourselves. We disrupted the pay-TV industry in the mid-90s with the launch of the DISH satellite TV service, taking on some of the largest U.S. corporations in the process, and grew to be the fourth-largest pay-TV provider. We are doing it again with the first live, internet-delivered TV service - Sling TV - that bucks traditional pay-TV norms and gives consumers a truly new way to access and watch television.Now we have our sights set on upending the wireless industry and unseating the entrenched incumbent carriers.We are driven by curiosity, pride, adventure, and a desire to win - it's in our DNA. We're looking for people with boundless energy, intelligence, and an overwhelming need to achieve to join our team as we embark on the next chapter of our story.Opportunity is here. We are DISH.
Primary Responsibilities:- Ensure high availability of conditional access applications in various environments
- Administer and manage various server hardware, virtualization, and operating systems
- Manage application environments to minimize outages and service interruptions
- Work with various engineering teams to deploy new features and upgrades
- Manage systems monitoring and alerting tools
- Routinely research, analyze, and troubleshoot complex problems
- Create and maintain technical documents and procedures
- Ensure that solutions adhere to defined standards and best practices and/or assist in the development of these standards and best practices
- MS in Computer Science or a related technical degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 2+ years experience with Docker/Kubernetes Administration
- 8+ years experience performing Linux system administration (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat preferred) including installation, maintenance, upgrade, configuration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and resolving operating system issues
- 6+ years VMware administration experience
- 5+ years experience with networking, DNS, NFS, backups, monitoring, alerting, logging
- 3+ years experience scripting experience: Bash, Perl, Python, etc.
- Strong critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving skills
- Strong desire to automate tasks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to share on-call rotation with team members
- Self-motivation and ability to work effectively both alone and as part of a team
- Experience administering Suse Rancher Kubernetes
- Experience with tools such as ArgoCD, Gitlab, Salt, Helm
- Experience with build/deploy pipeline management
- Experience in administration of these technologies:
- IBM AIX OS and VIOS virtualization
- Windows/Active Directory
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