Director of Cloud & Platform Engineering

Director of Cloud and Platform Engineering

Location: Onsite in Denver, Colorado

At DISH, our technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. 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.

What you will be doing:

We are seeking an inventive, high-level thinker to lead a diverse team of engineers at the helm of DISH's unparalleled customer experience. The successful Director of Cloud & Platform Engineering will help build the technologies that change the way we communicate. He/She/They will work in a complex, fast-paced and highly elastic environment that provides opportunities to navigate across different teams and projects. In this role, you will:

Build the modern platform of the future for DISH leveraging best in class, modern technologies
Lead the Cloud & Platform Engineering Center of Excellence
Evolve the cloud strategy to meet business needs and setup the foundation for the future
Drive a customer-centric approach to the evolution of our platform
Continue our efforts to realize a robust, hybrid cloud infrastructure
Enable modern applications to run effectively and securely on the platform
Deliver software in an agile environment, continuously.

Skills and Experience:

This leader will play a vital role in DISH's growth and long-term success. They will have the opportunity to lend their vision to how our company engages, collaborate and ultimately competes in the marketplace. The wide-ranging nature of the position will afford this leader oversight and influence into many aspects of the business. As a result, we expect potential candidates to meet a level of education and experience that demonstrates they can be successful in this role.

Successful Director of Platform Engineering Candidates Have:

Ability to work onsite out of our American Fork, UT or Englewood, CO offices
Four- year college degree in computer science or information technology; master's degree preferred.
15+ years of professional enterprise development/systems/operations experience
10+ years of leadership experience
8+ years managing senior managers and above
Experience building and managing large highly available enterprise grade applications
Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, GCP, SRE, DevSecOps, etc.

Ideal Director of Platform Engineering Candidates Have:

Enthusiasm for automated testing with in-depth knowledge of how to effectively test services and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes
Hands-on experience leading and working with GitOps and infrastructure as code tooling
Working knowledge of cloud security, how to implement it and how to help an organization adopt these new technologies
Good exposure to working with various software vendors, handling licensing negotiations and leveraging them to deliver outcomes.

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 nuanced 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, CI, TDD, and/or BDD
Core Data Services: Confluent Stack, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra, Rabbit MQ, 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 and patterns
Web Scale, distributed systems
Cloud Services: AWS, GCP, Azure, VMWare.