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 Infinite, Boost Mobile, DISH Wireless, OnTech and GenMobile.
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
The IT F5 Team is focused on streamlining access and connectivity to DISH's core business applications as well as enabling partner connectivity in a safe and secure manner. The F5 Team is an essential part of the DISH business. As a member of this team, you'll be creating new VIPs, adding members to pools, ensuring that the proper SSL configurations are applied, writing custom iRules, updating F5 operating systems all in a virtual environment that is both public and private clouds. You'll also be responsible to join outage bridges to troubleshoot connectivity issues with a wide variety of applications and systems. This position will require on-call after-hours support.
Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining DISH's F5 environments across all lines of business
• Support existing systems and services
• Troubleshoot application layer connectivity issues with other teams
• Provide technical/architectural solutions to the team
• Provide support to development teams, partners, and other stakeholders that require the use of F5 technology

Skills, Experience and Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in a business or technical discipline, or equivalent experience

Experience:

• Minimum 4 years of experience direct hands on experience managing F5 devices
• Experienced in supporting multiple F5 LTM, APM and/or GTM platforms; this includes installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting issues on these platforms
• Experienced in VIP creation, Wide IP IPeation, certificate creation and updates, SSLSSLofile creation, pool creation and pool member modification
• Experience in writing and troubleshooting F5 iRules
• Experienced with packet capture analysis and troubleshooting
• Experienced in multiple tier application support

Skills and Qualifications:

• HTTP/S troubleshooting tools (POSTMAN, HTTP Watch, Fiddler, Curl, etc)
• AWS AWS2 and VMware.
• Self-motivation with strong, proven, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to effectively communicate across all departments in the organization
• A constant learner-mindset with the drive to creatively think outside the box and innovate

Preferred Skills

• Bash/Python/Ansible Scripting
• iRulesLX (ILX)
• F5 Certifications

Salary Ranges
Compensation: $96,250.00/Year - $137,500.00/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.
The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.