EchoStar Technologies is looking for a highly motivated individual to take full ownership of the on-premise cloud environment of the EchoStar OTT Services division. The successful candidate for our Staff Virtualization Engineer will have at least 4 years deep experience with the VMWare cloud product suite and 10 years of large scale web services experience. We are looking for a VMWare product and related technologies subject matter expert. Although the environment is very VMware-centric, familiarity with virtualization technologies from other vendors is a plus.
This position requires a mixture of architecture, engineering, and support. Qualified candidates should have highly developed troubleshooting and analytical skills. This position can be hired in either Superior, Colorado or Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Provide technical leadership to our OTT services team as we deploy and grow our consumer facing web services for the delivery of TV Everywhere in a highly virtualized environment.
* Design and deploy a highly functional self-service cloud portal for use by application development teams for dev and test sandbox deployments.
* Drive cloud roadmap based on business unit requirements while maintaining cost efficiencies and effective resource allocation.
* Based on expert skills, train a growing team on the installation, configuration, and management of VMware ESX.
* Apply in-depth knowledge of VMware vCenter, vCloud Director and Cisco's CIAC etc. to a greenfield cloud environment defining monitoring standards, operational procedures and growth plan.
* Develop, implement and maintain a robust backup and disaster recovery plan for the cloud.
* Work with partner vendors as well as application engineering teams to define best practices virtual architecture for development and highly available production environments.
* Guide the development of the teams' practical knowledge acquisition of virtualization solutions from vendors such as Rightscale, Scalr, Cisco and EMC
* Lead cross-functional team efforts to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks and make performance-related recommendations (hardware, software, configuration) in the virtual environment.
* Make configuration/patch recommendations for guest operating systems deployments such as a variety of Linux flavors and Windows.
* Work with Data Security team to ensure the cloud remains sensibly secure and define an appropriate access plan for all business units.
Skills and Qualifications
Education, Experience and Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computer Information Systems.
* Strong Supervisory skills a must.
* Vendor CERTS VMWare, EMC, Cisco are a plus
* 5+ years' experience plan, design, configuration and support of large scale virtual environments for consumer web services
* Excellent performance tuning, troubleshooting abilities of the ESX platform.
* 5+ years' experience with both SAN and NAS technologies
* 5+ years performing capacity planning, performance analysis and development of data disaster recovery plans for large scale virtual environments
* 5+ years with one or more of the following: C, UNIX shell scripting, Perl, Python, Power CLI or similar languages
* Demonstrated successes in projects requiring data replication technologies and low-impact server migration strategies.
* 7 years' experience performing general Linux and Windows system administration including installation, maintenance, upgrade, configuration, performance tuning, troubleshooting and resolving operating system issues
* Able to communicate clearly with peers as well as management and provide technical leadership to more junior team members.
* Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities
* The ability to socialize ideas, make recommendations and gather team consensus to move forward
* Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking.
Beyond the Purely Technical:
* Very analytical and thorough in tasks assigned.
* Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups
* Quick learner with excellent communication and documentation skills.
* Excellent communication, writing, meeting facilitation skills
* Good common sense - knowing what you don't know and when to ask.
* Willing to be part of an on-call rotation on Tier 3 escalations for nights; weekend support is a must.
* A great attitude is essential. Must work well without direct supervision and as part of a team
Echostar delivers satellite services through our network of full-service digital broadcast Centers located throughout the U.S. Our uplink sites support a 24/7/365 , mission critical operation comprised of Earth Station Operations, Broadcast (Baseband) Engineering, Network Operations and the underlying Information Systems Engineering that drive all operations.
Our Uplinks employ a broad range of technical professionals. We look for individuals who possess strong interpersonal and communication skills and self-motivation, with the ability to work effectively both alone and as part of a team. Our ideal candidates will have ability to multi-task and work well under pressure in a fast-paced, on-time deliverable environment. Due to operational requirements, some candidates must be willing to work shifts.
Benefits of the position:
Medical, Health Savings Account, dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending options and Employee Assistance Plan
401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition reimbursement
Employee Referral Program
Training opportunities
FREE DISH Network Satellite TV System and Programming
FREE Hughes Network Service
50% Discounts on Sling technology and service
Corporate discounts for retail and personal travel
Opportunity for a level of responsibility that could take years to reach in other companies
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EchoStar Over-The-Top (OTT) Services is looking for a highly motivated and experienced individual to architect and manage the complex and quickly evolving systems infrastructure supporting our TV Everywhere initiatives for consumers. The perfect candidate must demonstrate a careful balance of objectivity and expertise and the ability to communicate each effectively.
This position requires a mixture of architecture, engineering, and support. Qualified candidates should have highly developed troubleshooting and analytical skills. This position can be hired in either Superior, Colorado or Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Architect, supervise and participate in the implementation of technologies and platforms supporting a complex web services and virtualized infrastructure.
* Ensure high availability of OTT Services platforms that support our consumer facing applications as well as development teams.
* Troubleshoot and remediate Tier 3 issues impacting the operation of OTT services
* Provide direction and supervision of Tier 1,2 operations staff on the implementation and upgrade of DNS, NTP, Active Directory, Terminal Services and Management automation technologies.
* Serve as one of the primary points of contact for complex Linux infrastructure deployments and troubleshooting.
* Work closely with all levels of OTT Services team to define infrastructure roadmaps that balance upgrades with application requirements.
* Assist with planning and implementing systems and network integrations.
* Document the design, operation and troubleshooting of technology platforms and procedures.
* Mentor and educate OTT Services staff on the operation and configuration of new infrastructure systems and their interoperability.
* Perform all activities in keeping with established change management and approval procedures.
* Evaluate new technologies and platforms to determine their applicability to solving our business challenges and needs.
* Participate in cross-functional team efforts to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks and make performance-related recommendations (hardware, software, configuration).
Education, Experience and Certifications:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computer Information Systems - education requirement can be substituted with demonstrated commensurate experience.
* Strong Supervisory skills a must.
* Expert knowledge of DNS, NTP, Active Directory, Terminal Services and Management automation technologies
* Expert in at least one scripting language - Shell, Perl, PHP etc.
* Expert skills required for the installation, configuration, and management large scale Linux and Windows installs in a highly virtualized environment
* Expert experience with large-scale, web services design and deployments with a strong understanding of scaling, performance and scheduling
* Strong experience with a variety of Linux flavors
* Well versed in complex performance tuning and benchmarking of Linux and Windows environments
* Practical knowledge of large scale CDN environments
* Hands-on experience with the following network platforms: F5 load balancers, CheckPoint Firewalls and Cisco Nexus converged switching
* Demonstrated successes in projects requiring data replication technologies, server migration and disaster recovery strategies.
* Able to communicate clearly with peers as well as management and provide technical leadership to more junior team members.
* Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities
The ability to socialize ideas, make recommendations and gather team consensus to move forward
Beyond the Purely Technical:
* Very analytical and thorough in tasks assigned.
* Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups
* Quick learner with excellent communication and documentation skills.
* Good common sense - knowing what you don't know and when to ask.
* Willing to be part of an on-call rotation on Tier 3 escalations for nights; weekend support is a must.
* A great attitude is essential. Must work well without direct supervision and as part of a team
Echostar delivers satellite services through our network of full-service digital broadcast Centers located throughout the U.S. Our uplink sites support a 24/7/365 , mission critical operation comprised of Earth Station Operations, Broadcast ( Baseband) Engineering, Network Operations and the underlying Information Systems Engineering that drive all operations.
Our Uplinks employ a broad range of technical professionals. We look for individuals who possess strong interpersonal and communication skills and self-motivation, with the ability to work effectively both alone and as part of a team. Our ideal candidates will have ability to multi-task and work well under pressure in a fast-paced, on-time deliverable environment. Due to operational requirements, some candidates must be willing to work shifts.
Benefits of the position:
Medical, Health Savings Account, dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending options and Employee Assistance Plan
401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition reimbursement
Employee Referral Program
Training opportunities
FREE DISH Network Satellite TV System and Programming
FREE Hughes Network Service
50% Discounts on Sling technology and service
Corporate discounts for retail and personal travel
Opportunity for a level of responsibility that could take years to reach in other companies
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EchoStar Over-The-Top Services is looking for a highly motivated individual to guide a growing team in our efforts around NoSQL technologies, both in terms of engineering the backend solutions and providing operational support. The successful candidate for our Staff NoSQL Data Store Engineer will have at least 4 years deep experience with a variety of NoSQL data stores such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchBase as well as MySQL. The perfect candidate must demonstrate a careful balance of objectivity and expertise and the ability to communicate each effectively.
This position requires a mixture of architecture, engineering, and support. Qualified candidates should have highly developed troubleshooting and analytical skills. This position can be hired in either Superior, Colorado or Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Provide technical leadership to our OTT services team as we deploy and grow our consumer facing web services for the delivery of TV Everywhere, based on a combination of Hadoop, CouchBase, Cassandra, MongoDB and MySQL.
* Develop a strategic method for deploying these technologies to efficiently solve the company's varied Big Data processing requirements.
* Deploy and maintain scalable analytic solutions using open source NOSQL technologies.
* Participate in the research, design and development of scaling strategies for our very large and growing data assets
* Drive Back-End Automation standards, Scalability Architecture solutions and Large Scale Open Source Data Processing for the organization.
* Lead data strategy, design and architecture while providing input to the application development teams on how to utilize the capabilities of NoSQL Technologies.
* Lead cross-functional team efforts to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks and make performance-related recommendations (hardware, software, configuration).
* Experiment with NoSQL deployments (Cassandra, CouchBase, MongoDB) to determine the best use cases of each.
Education/Certification /Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computer Information Systems.
* Strong Supervisory skills a must.
* 5+ years' experience with NoSQL data stores (Cassandra, MongoDB)
* Experience with Hadoop
* Expert knowledge of MySQL databases
* Well versed in complex performance tuning and benchmarking in both NoSQL and MySQL platforms
* Expert in at least one scripting language - Shell, Perl, etc.
* Expert skills required for the installation, configuration, and management of NoSQL data stores and MySQL.
* Expert experience with large-scale, distributed systems design and deployments with a strong understanding of scaling, performance and scheduling
* Demonstrated successes in projects requiring data replication technologies, server migration and disaster recovery strategies.
* Love tracking and storing data and are familiar with data warehousing
* Know exactly when MySQL sucks and when it's awesome
* Strong experience with a variety of Linux flavors
* Expert understanding of ETL techniques and best practices to handle extremely large and complex volume of data
* 5+ years' experience with data store deployments in both SAN and NAS environments
* 5+ years performing capacity planning, performance analysis and development of data disaster recovery plans for large scale data systems
* Able to communicate clearly with peers as well as management and provide technical leadership to more junior team members.
* Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities
* The ability to socialize ideas, make recommendations and gather team consensus to move forward
Beyond the purely technical:
* Very analytical and thorough in tasks assigned.
* Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups
* Quick learner with excellent communication and documentation skills.
* Good common sense - knowing what you don't know and when to ask.
* Willing to be part of an on-call rotation on Tier 3 escalations for nights; weekend support is a must.
* A great attitude is essential. Must work well without direct supervision and as part of a team
Echostar delivers satellite services through our network of full-service digital broadcast Centers located throughout the U.S. Our uplink sites support a 24/7/365 , mission critical operation comprised of Earth Station Operations, Broadcast ( Baseband) Engineering, Network Operations and the underlying Information Systems Engineering that drive all operations.
Our Uplinks employ a broad range of technical professionals. We look for individuals who possess strong interpersonal and communication skills and self-motivation, with the ability to work effectively both alone and as part of a team. Our ideal candidates will have ability to multi-task and work well under pressure in a fast-paced, on-time deliverable environment. Due to operational requirements, some candidates must be willing to work shifts.
Benefits of the position:
Medical, Health Savings Account, dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending options and Employee Assistance Plan
401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition reimbursement
Employee Referral Program
Training opportunities
FREE DISH Network Satellite TV System and Programming
FREE Hughes Network Service
50% Discounts on Sling technology and service
Corporate discounts for retail and personal travel
Opportunity for a level of responsibility that could take years to reach in other companies.
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EchoStar Technologies, is seeking a well-qualified Storage Engineer. In this position, which can be worked in Superior, or Cheyenne, WY, you would be responsible for managing various technical aspects and big-data storage architecture of the EchoStar Over-The-Top (OTT) Services division. Involved in the storage architecture decisions for a multi-Petabyte content processing and delivery environment supporting the high growth business segments of web and mobile OTT services. The principal functions of the Staff Storage Systems Engineer position is to plan and manage the installation, configuration and tuning of SAN and storage hardware and software including DR appliances according to best practices, while ensuring high levels of data quality and availability for all OTT customers in a 24x7 Enterprise Storage Systems environment including but not limited to EMC/Isilon, NetApp, and IBM storage devices. This position can be hired in either Superior, Colorado or Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Demonstrated working proficiency in SAN fabric management (ISLs, utilization, zoning, masking, etc.)
* Deep knowledge of SAN hardware and software from Cisco, Brocade and/or Juniper fabric architectures.
* Administer hardware components specifically focused on EMC/Isilon, but may also include NetApp and HP/3PAR.
* Familiar with wide variety of storage systems, big-data storage, virtualization technologies and the appropriate backup environments for each
* Interpret storage protocols including iSCSI, Fiber Channel, CIFS, NFS, NDMP and work with platforms that use them.
* Maintain partnerships and leverage market technologies associated with SAN vendors, product enhancements and product roadmaps to determine how they can be beneficially applied to the company's enterprise
* Maintain current knowledge of storage-related trends and issues including current emerging technologies and best practices
* Develop and implement performance tuning strategies for all storage clusters providing trend analysis to all levels of the organization
* Provide capacity planning, performance analysis, develop disaster recovery plans, lead efforts towards storage consolidation and identify storage growth, manage configurations of storage media and storage management software.
* Provide technical expertise, guidance and strategic recommendations to develop a roadmap that ensures that the current and planned technical backup solutions are compatible with the company's business needs and strategic objectives
* Develop, implement and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning, uptime and data protection
* Willingness to manage a 24x7x365 storage and backup environment including on-call rotation, weekend work, etc.
* Extensive experience in design and documentation of backup/restore strategies via enterprise class backup solutions for highly virtualized environments.
* Support storage in a VMware virtualization environment
* Ability to plan, document and effectively implement projects and systems
* Demonstrated ability to work in a high volume, fast paced environment with many deadlines and competing priorities
* Experience with Data Replication, Snap Shots and Virtualization Technology
Education/ Certification /Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computer Information Systems.
* Strong Supervisory skills a must.
* Vendor CERTS for EMC/Isilon, NetApp, HP/3PAR, or IBM are a plus
* 5+ years' experience plan, design, configuration and support of large enterprise SAN's environments
* 3+ years with any of EMC/Isilon, NetApp, and/or IBM SAN Storage
* 3+ years performing capacity planning, performance analysis and development of data disaster recovery plans
* Able to communicate clearly with peers as well as management and provide technical leadership to more junior team members.
* Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities
* The ability to socialize ideas, make recommendations and gather team consensus to move forward
* Excellent communication, writing, meeting facilitation skills
Knowledge and Skill Requirements:
* Very analytical and thorough in tasks assigned.
* Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups
* Quick learner with good communication and documentation skills.
* Working knowledge of either Perl, PHP, or shell scripting preferred.
* Experience with storage requirements of relational databases and NoSQL data stores.
Echostar delivers satellite services through our network of full-service digital broadcast Centers located throughout the U.S. Our uplink sites support a 24/7/365 , mission critical operation comprised of Earth Station Operations, Broadcast ( Baseband) Engineering, Network Operations and the underlying Information Systems Engineering that drive all operations.
Our Uplinks employ a broad range of technical professionals. We look for individuals who possess strong interpersonal and communication skills and self-motivation, with the ability to work effectively both alone and as part of a team. Our ideal candidates will have ability to multi-task and work well under pressure in a fast-paced, on-time deliverable environment. Due to operational requirements, some candidates must be willing to work shifts.
Benefits of the position:
Medical, Health Savings Account, dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending options and Employee Assistance Plan
401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition reimbursement
Employee Referral Program
Training opportunities
FREE DISH Network Satellite TV System and Programming
FREE Hughes Network Service
50% Discounts on Sling technology and service
Corporate discounts for retail and personal travel
Opportunity for a level of responsibility that could take years to reach in other companies
