Data Center Network Administrator

Company Summary
DISH, an EchoStar company, has been reimagining the future of connectivity for more than 40 years. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products and now we are building America's First Smart Network .
Today, our brands include EchoStar, Hughes, DISH TV, Sling TV, Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile.
Department Summary
Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our people play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Network Operations:

• Follow necessary processes to ensure enterprise network systems and services meet an operational uptime of 99.95%
• Conducts advanced enterprise-level performance tuning as well as network performance audits on a regular basis
• Maintaining daily operational responsibility for reliability of the DISH corporate network
• Manages enterprise network systems and services to an operational uptime of 99.95%
• Responsible for design and implementation of data network services and performs network testing and evaluation testing on a regular basis
• Conducts advanced enterprise-level performance tuning as well as network performance audits on a regular basis
• Monitors ongoing availability of network services and processes.
• Validate that customer network configurations are functioning per designs by validating log flows, event threshold settings, and alarm notification settings

Project Implementation :

• Provide advanced technical leadership for complex project work
• Supply advanced technical direction and leadership to the junior members of the data networking team
• Work with various teams to gather requirements, create specifications, and design solution for network projects
• Provide hands-on implementation and ongoing care and maintenance for network projects
• Develop implementations in lab environment to prove out design specifications according to a test and validation plan
• Maintaining daily operational responsibility for reliability of the DISH enterprise network
• Monitors ongoing availability of network services and processes via tools such as Solarwinds Orion and Cisco Prime Infrastructure applications

Skills, Experience and Requirements
Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong experience and great understanding of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure running Network mode for data center routing/swtiching
• Practical experience related to LAN, WAN, WLAN, VLAN, DMVPN, VPN, and high-availability/multipath/redundant routers, switches and firewalls in large data center environment
• Support network protocols such as: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, HSRP, VLAN, TCP/IP, MPLS, STP, IPv4, sub-netting, routing
• Familiarity with these technologies is a plus: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco ISE, networking for F5 LTM/GTM, and networking for IPS/IDS
• Extensive knowledge on Cisco routers and switches (Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS)
• General technical knowledge of Cisco networking technologies and platforms to include Nexus, ASR, ISR, and Catalyst
• Experience with network configuration automation (Scripting with Pearl/Python/Bash), SD-Access, and DNA Center a plus

Salary Ranges
Compensation: $110,100.00/Year - $157,300.00/Year
Benefits
We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities and a flexible time away plan. All benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits .
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check.
This will be posted for a minimum of 3 days or until the position is filled.