DISH Hiring for Senior Architect – Infrastructure at Bengaluru, India Full Time

About Dish Our Vision is to change the way the world communicates. Our Mission is to connect people and things. We are reimagining the way people watch TV with services like Sling and AirTV. We are redefining the boundaries of communication and connectivity too, with our planned greenfield 5G cloud-native network build-out and the Internet of Things. Nothing is out of our reach, and the opportunity to shape the future of entertainment and technology has never been more tangible. 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 The job role requires sound technical knowledge, proven business acumen, and differentiating client interfacing ability. Infra engineers are required to anticipate, create and define an innovative technical solution that matches customers’ needs and DISH’s tactical and strategic requirements. Configuration and Troubleshooting Responsible for planning, designing, integrating, and driving large-scale routing, switching firewall, load-balancer, CDN, and VMware on Cisco UCS Hardware solutions, in accordance with Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering specifications and security guidelines. Manage complex projects. Act as a final contact for any technical issue for the DISH engineering teams. Drive Critical/Major incidents and involve in RCA preparations. Responsible for planning and capacity management of network infrastructure. Responsible for implementing DR & Chaos engineering solutions and performing periodic tests. Responsible for addressing performance and replication-related issues. Your team will be… Building an enterprise-wide cloud-native, web-scale platform and the tooling that surrounds it, that will be adopted by engineering teams across various business units within DISH Enabling the core platform services for our organization to consume – Onprem Infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, service discovery, 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 Provide multi-level technical support in defining, developing, and evaluating network products to meet DISH needs Support these activities by diagnosing, reproducing, and fixing software and hardware issues on enterprise Datacentre Networking, WAN, Links & Public cloud infrastructure technologies Provide recommendations to improve the network infrastructure and address/lead critical issues and analysis Manage the day-to-day application of compute, storage, and network – security policies to new development to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and fairness for our customers Automation of TOIL Orchestrating Runbooks and encouraging IAC Evaluate and ensure changes are in accordance with appropriate operating procedures; recommend revisions or changes based upon results Manage hygiene activities and updates of support packages/patches to maintain system integrity Participate in capacity planning by providing support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of infrastructure and services Act as an Infra security architect/SME for network infrastructures and perimeter security technologies such as firewalls, load balancers, WAF, proxies, SDN, DNS, and DDOS solutions Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel Own the assessment, development, implementation, optimization, and documentation of a comprehensive, broad set of security technologies and processes, data protection, key management, identity and access management (IAM), network security within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other infrastructure environments Helping application development, operations, testing, and delivering software in an agile environment, continuously. Supporting infrastructure teams realize what being “cloud-native” is all about In order to be successful in this role, you will need to be… Highly motivated, driven & hardworking Not afraid to fail A true believer in cloud-native, hybrid cloud, and continuous deployment Able to visualize, design, and implement platform solutions and tools at the enterprise level Comfortable with scripting & using GitOps framework Provide guidance to engineering teams on development standards, automation, and tools Knowledge of emerging technologies – curious to experiment and build a proof of concepts 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 “superheroes” need not apply. Hands-on: Routers/Switches (Arista & Brocade), Firewalls (Palo Alto), Load Balancers (F5, Brocade), AWS Networking, Wireless (Aruba) Networking technologies: Routing Protocols (BGP, EIGRP & OSPF), VRFs, VLANs, VRRP, LACP, MLAG, TACACS / Rancid / GIT, IPSec VPN, DNS / DHCP, NAT / SNAT, IP Multicast, VPC, Transit Gateway, NAT Gateway, ALB/ELB, Security Groups, ACL, HSRP, VRRP, SNMP, DHCP Implementation, Decommission, Upgrades, Updates of switch/route, firewall, LB, etc. Managing CDN, Links, VPN technologies, SDN, SDWAN, and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Review technology designs, and architecture, taking local and regional regulatory requirements into account for VMWare, Storage Solutions, Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Firewalls, NGFW, NAT, IPS, Botnet, Application Control, DDoS, Web Filtering Create a real-time contextual living map of Sling’s network with detailed network specifications, including diagrams, equipment configurations with defined standards Bring in the practice of Infrastructure As Code on all current compute, storage, network devices, and new implementations – Write Once, Execute Anywhere Improve the reliability of the service, bring in proactiveness to identify and prevent impact to customers by eliminating Single Point of Failure (SPOF) Capture critical forensic data, and provide complete visibility across the enterprise, for security incidents as soon as a threat is detected, by implementing tools like NetBrain Experience architecting and building Kubernetes-based platforms across AWS, and/or VMWare Experience working in regulated environments – PCI, ITAR, 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 from India offices Having a 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, a master’s degree is preferred, or equivalent professional experience Have experience building and managing large, highly available enterprise-grade platforms 15+ years of professional enterprise development, operations, SRE, cloud platform, and on-prem/data center infrastructure experience (with 6+ in a large enterprise) For architects, additional exposure in design, managing Hybrid cloud infra, rearchitecting the DC environment to synergize with AWS cloud, and modernizing the NW landscape is required For Principal engineers managing/leading a team of 5 or more is preferred Technologies in our environment: Here are some 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. Palo Alto / Cisco / Brocade / Arista/ F5 / Bluecat AWS / Private Cloud VMWare (on Cisco UCS) Cloud Native tools: Kubernetes / Docker / Rancher / Consul / Vault / Jenkins / Terraform / Helm / gRPC / Istio / Envoy/ Kong/ Linux Isilon/Pure and Cloud-based storage CI/CD & DevSecOps tools: Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Atlassian Cloud, SonarQube, ArgoCD, Fortify, OWASP Observability: New Relic, Prometheus, SolarWinds, NetBrain, Kiali, Calico, Jaeger, Logz, Grafana Salt Stack / Chef / Ansible / Puppet (Optional) Automated testing of applications & Continuous Integration / TDD / BDD CI / CD & DevOps Culture 12 Factor Applications Serverless / Function as a service concept, implementations & patterns Web-scale, distributed systems