Staff Network Engineer

$100,100 - $157,300/Yr

Dish - Cheyenne, WY

Full-time - Mid Level

Cheyenne, WY

Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

The Staff Network Engineer at DISH is responsible for providing advanced technical leadership in the implementation and maintenance of complex network projects. This role involves collaborating with various teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and ensure the reliability of enterprise network systems. The engineer will also conduct performance tuning and audits to maintain high operational uptime and validate configurations to ensure optimal functionality.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced technical leadership for complex project work.
• Supply advanced technical direction and leadership to junior members of the data working team.
• Work with various teams to gather requirements, create specifications, and design solutions for work projects.
• Provide hands-on implementation and ongoing care and maintenance for work 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 performance audits on a regular basis.
• Monitor ongoing availability of work services and processes.
• Validate that customer work 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 required.
• Experience with the amendments for roaming (e.g., 802.11k/r/v) strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with high-availability/redundant wireless controllers like Cisco 9800 or 5508 required.
• General technical knowledge of Cisco working platforms and protocols/features including Catalyst, debug, STP, Port Security, Port Authentication, ACL, Rogue Detection/Mitigation required.
• Experience successfully supporting MacOS Wi-Fi, especially roaming in an enterprise environment is a strong plus.
• Cisco Prime Infrastructure with CMX and/or DNA Center with DNA Spaces desirable.
• Experience with Wi-Fi site survey using Ekahau (or similar) desirable.
• Experience with Software Defined Networking (SDN), work configuration automation (e.g., using CPI), SD-Access, DNA Center is desirable.
• Familiarity with Cisco ISE and ACS (for 802.1x Wi-Fi and Wired authentication) is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with amendments for roaming (e.g., 802.11k/r/v) strongly preferred.
• Experience with Software Defined Networking (SDN), work configuration automation (e.g., using CPI), SD-Access, DNA Center is desirable.

Benefits

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