Staff VMware Engineer

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