Job Description

DISH is transforming the future of connectivity. We’re doing it by building the country’s first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from scratch. The foundation of a connected world, it’s a network free of the limitations of the past, and flexible enough to satisfy all the social, economic and transformative needs of the changing world.

We’re looking for experienced network professionals to join DISH’s Wireless 5G Network Engineering Team. The Network Engineer will join a team of other passionate engineers and bring a start-up spirit to design, evaluate, test, deploy, and optimize DISH’s future standalone 5G network. The candidate should also be innovative, analytical, a planner, have strong execution skills, and have the ability to learn, teach, and work in a team environment.

Day-to-day job responsibilities:

Design, engineering and management of effective and scalable network systems and solutions.
Participate in evaluation, testing, selection, and deployment of foundational network elements for a nationwide greenfield network buildout
Ensure that solutions adhere to defined standards and best practices and/or assist in the development of these standards and best practices.
Effectively communicate engineering solutions through detailed high and low level diagrams
Routinely research, analyze, test, retest, and troubleshoot complex problems
Able to work in a fast-paced environment, under pressure, with strict deadlines, both as an individual contributor and team player
Participate in knowledge transfer, documentation and information sharing while staying abreast of new technology/technical areas

Successful candidates should have knowledge in the following areas:

Long/Mid haul provision, network design and engineering
Vendor management experience
Bachelor’s degree in Network/Computer Engineering preferred
5+ years of professional experience in large enterprise or carrier space

The ideal candidate will have: 

Multi-site architecture, Spine/leaf configuration, VDCs, edge routing
eBGP, iBGP, IS-IS, VRFs, and QoS

Integration with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Server virtualization - VMWare, Openstack
Network Deployment and Operations Automation - Ansible, Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
Network configuration automation (Scripting with Perl/Python/Bash)
IPv6 - SLAAC and DHCPv6
Software Defined Networking (SDN) - Design and Traffic Engineering

Solid Understanding of the OSI model, routing and switching protocols, network security, IPv4 and IPv6 networking, subnetting, and operational experience
Professional networking certifications a plus- CCNA/CCNP/CCIE or equivalent
Public cloud certifications a plus - Advanced Networking, Cloud Network Engineer, or equivalent