The Senior Engineer will design and develop a highly available AWS environment for mission-critical applications, perform system optimization, provide application support, and administer AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, implementing security measures, and managing cloud security systems.
Company Summary
DISH Network Technologies, an EchoStar company, has been reimagining the future of connectivity for more than 40 years. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products and now we are building America's First Smart Network™.
Today, our brands include EchoStar, Hughes, DISH TV, Sling TV, Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile.
Department Summary
Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our people play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist with the design and development of a multi-account, multi-region, highly available and highly automated AWS environment to support full software development life cycle and production of mission-critical applications. (Control Tower and Landing Zone Knowledge)
- Understand and contribute to the creation of system support documents, operational procedures, and build scripts/Cloud Formation templates (Json and YAML)
- Complete ongoing performance tuning and system optimization to better meet business needs. Reactively troubleshoot outages, perform root cause analysis, and execute continual service improvements
- Proactively mitigate business service disruptions with designed redundancy, backups, and highly available solutions. Maintain a highly available production infrastructure. Provide application support for product customers
- Provide systems administration functions on AWS infrastructure to include support of products such as: AWS Console root user administration, Key Management, EC2 Compute, S3 Storage, Relational Database Service (RDS), AWS Networking & Content delivery (VPC, Route 53, ELB, etc.) IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cloud Formation, Auto Scaling, Cost and Usage Report s (Security Groups, Guard Duty, Cloud Trial, Config, WAF, Lambda)
Skills, Experience and Requirements
- Knowledge of security technologies such as SIEM, Firewall/NGFW, EDR / DLP, UEBA and hybrid/Cloud Security environments (Logz.io, McAfee CASB)
- Will have considerable AWS and Linux skills, as well we DevOps skills around CI/CD and experience with tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Cloud Formation .(git)
- Working knowledge and experience with project and portfolio management tools, preferably Service Now, Microsoft Project, and/or Jira
- Excellent verbal and writing skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels
EDUCATION & WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Overall 8-10 years of experience in IT Security, 3-5 years working with AWS Security, and fluency with the AWS APIs/command line tools
- Experience implementing /maintaining security for cloud-based systems /applications in AWS
- Experience writing SOPs, system requirements, and other technical documents
- Experience centrally monitoring systems for alerts and incident management functions.
- (Incident response on Cloud, investigation on security issues)
- Scripting language experience (Python, Javascript, etc.), Strong working knowledge of automation tools such as (Puppet, Jenkins, and Chef). Working knowledge of RDS database such as PostgresSQL, Oracle, and MySQL
- Should possess one or more of the following certifications - CISSP, SANS GCIH, Vendor Certifications (CISO, Palo Alto, McAfee, IBM etc), AWS Certification(s)
- Engineering degree required
Benefits
- Employee Stock Purchase
- Term Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Training Reimbursement
- Gratuity
- Mobile and Internet Reimbursement
- Team Outings
Top Skills
AWS
JavaScript
Python
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