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DISH Senior Platform Architect in American Fork, Utah
In 2015, SLING redefined America’s relationship with live TV.
Five years later, we remain one of the country’s most influential inventions and driving forces behind the cord-cutting phenomenon. We’ve achieved our success by filling our offices with people invested in the medium they’re building.
Our teams are challenging the status quo and reimagining streaming capabilities. From product development to software design to big data and beyond, our people play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
About the position
Our mission is to build a modern, hybrid cloud enterprise platform for all DISH to consume. Our environment is…
Complex
Highly elastic
Based on some of the latest and greatest cloud native technologies
Very fast paced
Your team will be…
Enabling the core platform services for our organization to consume – AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, service discovery, DNS, IPAM, load balancing, private cloud, etc
Driving a customer centric, highly personalized approach to the evolution of our platform
Continuing our efforts to realize a robust hybrid cloud infrastructure
Delivering software in an agile environment, continuously
In order to be successful in this role, you will need to be…
Highly motivated, driven & hard working
Not afraid to fail
A true believer in cloud native, hybrid cloud and continuous deployment
Comfortable with scripting & using a Git repo for code management
Able to work independently and clearly present results
Experienced working with CI/CD in the enterprise
A team player. We have a great group of diverse folks working together in harmony. Big egos and “super heroes” need not apply.
Experience architecting and building Kubernetes based platforms across GCP, AWS, and/or VMWare
Experience work in regulated environments - PCI and CPNI in particular
Able to lead by example - we are looking for folks that can design and build. Hands on experience is a key to success
Basic Requirements:
A successful Senior Platform Architect will:
Be available to work onsite out of our American Fork, UT or Englewood, CO offices
Have a 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, master’s degree is preferred or equivalent professional experience
Have 10+ years of professional enterprise development, operations, SRE, platform, and/or infrastructure experience
Have experience building and managing large, highly available enterprise grade platforms
Technologies in our environment:
Here are some of the key technologies that make up our environment. While we do not expect you to have a detailed understanding of each, the more of these you are familiar with the better.
Programming Languages: Go, Java, Python, node js, typescript, etc
CI/CD & DevSecOps tools: Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, ArgoCD, Fortify, Netsparker, white hat, OWASP, Vault, Salt Stack, Terraform, etc
Automated testing of applications, Continuous Integration (CI), TDD, and/or BDD
Core Data services: Confluent Stack, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Redis, etc
Core platform services: Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Consul, AWS, Jaeger, gRPC, Istio, Calico, GCP, NGINX, etc
Serverless / Function as a service concepts, implementations & patterns
Web scale, distributed systems
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Compensation: $99,900.00/Yr. - $138,450.00/Yr.
From versatile health perks to new career opportunities, check out our benefits on our careers website (https://careers.dish.com/life/investing-in-you/) .
Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.