5701 S SANTA FE DRIVE, Littleton, COFull-time, ContractPay: $60.00 - $80.00 per hour $
Interview Process
1st Round: a 30-minute virtual interview with higher-level team members and hiring managers as they will assist in identifying a placement fit
2nd Round: 45-minute Virtual Technical panel interview with two engineers
3rd Round: 1-hour onsite interview with the Director or VP for executive approval
Onsite ONLY, no flexibility to work remotely or Hybrid
Relocation—This position is open to candidates who will relocate prior to starting the assignment (DISH does not pay for relocation expenses).
Note: The contractor must be relocated and be able to start on-site from day 1.
Shift Days: Monday-Friday
Shift Hours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MST
Conversion salary range (roughly): $140-160K
Conversion Plans: Looking to convert within 90 days if performance
Staff Network Engineer (cross-section Of Relevant Skills)
- Practical experience related to LAN, WAN, WLAN, VLAN, DMVPN, VPN, and high-availability/multipath/redundant routers, switches and firewalls in large 5G wireless provider network environment
- Support network protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, HSRP, VLAN, TCP/IP, MPLS, Segment routing, IPv4, subnetting, routing
- Familiarity with these technologies is a plus: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto firewalls, and Cisco ISE
- General technical knowledge of Cisco networking technologies and platforms, including NCS, ASR, ISR, Nexus ACI/APIC
- Experience with network configuration automation (Scripting with Pearl/Python/Bash), SD-Access, and DNA Center a plus
- Experience with AWS infrastructure a plus
Project Implementation
- Provide advanced technical leadership for complex project work
- Work with various teams to gather requirements, create specifications, and design solutions for 5G wireless network projects
- Supply advanced technical direction and leadership to the junior members of the 5G wireless network engineering team
- Provide hands-on implementation and ongoing care and maintenance for network projects
- Develop implementations in a lab environment to prove out design specifications according to a test and validation plan
- Maintaining daily operational responsibility for the reliability of the 5G wireless network
- Monitors ongoing availability of network services and processes via tools such as Cisco Prime Infrastructure applications and Solarwinds Orion
Network Operations
- Follow necessary processes to ensure 5G wireless network systems and services meet an operational uptime of 99.95%
- Conducts advanced Service provider network-level performance tuning as well as network performance audits regularly
- Maintaining daily operational responsibility for the reliability of the 5G wireless network
- Responsible for the design and implementation of network services and performs network testing and evaluation testing regularly
- Conducts advanced service provider network-level performance tuning as well as network performance audits regularly
- Monitors ongoing availability of network services and processes.
- Extensive knowledge of Cisco routers and switches (Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS)
- Validate that customer network configurations are functioning per designs by validating log flows, event threshold settings, and alarm notification settings
Education And Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer/Network Engineering or related field; ten years as a data network specialist in a medium to large service provider or enterprise network; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Skills And Qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of network monitoring and performance tools such as Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Wireshark, SolarWinds, etc.
- Strategic thinker, strong interest and aptitude in collaborative big picture, nation-wide network infrastructure roadmaps.
- A commitment to improving processes and to customer satisfaction.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Results-oriented team player who will work towards meeting team commitments and can work within a cross-functional team.