Network Engineer

$100,100 - $157,300/Yr

Dish - Cheyenne, WY

Full-time - Mid Level

Cheyenne, WY

Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

The Network Engineer position at DISH Network involves providing advanced technical leadership for complex network projects and maintaining the reliability of the DISH enterprise network. The role requires collaboration with various teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and ensure operational uptime of network services. The engineer will also be responsible for hands-on implementation and ongoing maintenance of network projects, as well as conducting performance audits and tuning of the network.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced technical leadership for complex project work
• Supply advanced technical direction and leadership to junior members of the data networking team
• Work with various teams to gather requirements, create specifications, and design solutions for network projects
• 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
• Maintain daily operational responsibility for the reliability of the DISH enterprise network with emphasis on user access both wired and wireless
• Ensure enterprise network systems and services meet an operational uptime of 99.95%
• Conduct advanced enterprise-level performance tuning and network performance audits regularly
• Monitor 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.

Requirements

• Practical experience related to WLAN, LAN, VLAN, 802.11 RF standards
• Familiarity with high-availability/redundant wireless controllers like Cisco 9800 or 5508
• General technical knowledge of Cisco networking platforms and protocols/features including Catalyst, debug, STP, Port Security, Port Authentication, ACL, Rogue Detection/Mitigation
• Experience supporting MacOS Wi-Fi, especially roaming in an enterprise environment
• Experience with Cisco Prime Infrastructure w/ CMX and/or DNA Center w/ DNA Spaces
• Experience with Wi-Fi site survey using Ekahau (or similar)
• Experience with Software Defined Networking (SDN), network configuration automation (e.g., using CPI), SD-Access, DNA Center
• Familiarity with Cisco ISE and ACS for 802.1x Wi-Fi and Wired authentication.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with the amendments for roaming (e.g., 802.11k/r/v)
• Experience with Wi-Fi site survey using Ekahau (or similar)
• Familiarity with Cisco ISE and ACS for 802.1x Wi-Fi and Wired authentication.

Benefits

• Versatile health perks including flexible spending accounts
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401(k) Plan with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Career opportunities
• Flexible time away plan