Staff VMware Engineer

Jobs for Humanity is partnering with DISH to build an inclusive and just employment ecosystem. Therefore, we prioritize individuals coming from the following communities: Refugee, Neurodivergent, Single Parent, Blind or Low Vision, Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Military Veterans, the Elderly, the LGBTQ, and Justice Impacted individuals. This position is open to candidates who reside in and have the legal right to work in the country where the job is located.

Company Name: DISH

Department Summary


Job Duties and Responsibilities

A VMWare Engineer with Dish Wireless will be directly working in environments supporting automated deployment and management on a VMWare cloud native environment. This role will work directly towards increasing automated recovery and zero touch provisioning using tools like: Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab, Jenkins, and more.

 

In this role, you will: 

• Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentor junior engineers and new team members, and apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
• Develop highly available, fault-tolerant VMware infrastructure designs and solutions
• Establishes standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of VMware infrastructure, including backups, upgrade, and automation processes

• Proactively identify and recommend updates to software or architecture as necessary before reaching capacity limitations
• Develop automated responses to incidents so that manual intervention is not necessary
• Champion system metrics (MTBF, MTTR, etc.) and convey them to decision makers on a regular basis
• Manage priority of issues and tickets and participate in rotating an on-call schedule with other members of the team, including weekends

 

Skills, Experience and Requirements

As a successful VMWare Engineer, you will have the following at a minimum:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; six years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 4 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools
• Direct experience in bare-metal deployments of VMware infrastructure
• Direct experience with building and administering multiple VMware products across multiple remote locations and data centers
• 2 or more years experience in programming using one or more of the following: Java, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, or advanced Shell scripting

Salary Range

Compensation: $100,100.00/Year - $143,000.00/Year
Compensation and Benefits

From versatile health perks to new career opportunities, check out our benefits on our careers website. Successful completion of a pre-employment screen, to include a drug test and criminal background check.