AWS Systems Engineer

| Greater Denver Area
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Sling TV L.L.C. provides an over-the-top (internet delivered) television experience on TVs, tablets, gaming consoles, computers, smartphones, smart TVs and other streaming devices. Distributed across a variety of strategic device partners, including Google, Amazon, Apple TV, Microsoft, Roku, Samsung, LG, Comcast, and many others, Sling TV offers two primary domestic streaming services that collectively include more than 100 channels of top content. Featured programmers include Disney/ESPN, Fox, NBC, AMC, A&E, EPIX, Starz, NFL Network, NBA TV, NHL Networks, Pac-12 Networks, Hallmark, Viacom, and more. For Spanish-speaking customers, Sling Latino offers a suite of standalone and extra Spanish-programming packages tailored to the U S. Hispanic market.  And for those seeking International content, Sling International currently provides more than 300 channels in 20 languages (available across multiple devices) to U.S. households. 

 

Sling TV is the #1 Live TV Streaming Service  Sling TV is a next-generation service that meets the entertainment needs of today’s contemporary viewers. Visit www.Sling.com. We are driven by curiosity, pride, adventure, and a desire to win – it’s in our DNA. We’re looking for people with boundless energy, intelligence, and an overwhelming need to achieve to join our team as we embark on the next chapter of our story.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

 

About SlingTV

Sling TV is the #1 over-the-top (OTT) live streaming content platform that delivers live TV and on-demand entertainment instantly to a variety of smart televisions, tablets, game consoles, computers, smartphones and streaming devices.

About the position

Our mission is to build the next generation, web scale platform for SlingTV.  Our environment is…

 

  • Complex
  • Highly elastic
  • Based on some of the latest and greatest cloud native technologies
  • Very fast paced

Your team will be…

 

  • Building the enterprise data lake & Big Data Pipelines for our organization.
  • Driving a customer centric, highly personalized approach to the evolution of our platform.
  • Delivering Big Data Pipelines using Kafka, ELK Stack and AWS as foundational components.
  • Delivering software in a SAFe based agile environment, continuously.

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to be…

 

  • Highly motivated, driven & hard workin
  • Not afraid to fail
  • Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud-based production system, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.
  • Build, release and configuration management of production systems.
  • Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services.
  • System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.
  • Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.
  • Evaluating new technology options and vendor products.
  • Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions.
  • A team player.  We have a great group of diverse folks working together in harmony.  Big egos and “super heroes” need not apply.

Skills - Experience and Requirements

Basic Requirements:

A successful AWS Systems Engineer:

 

  • Be available to work onsite out of our American Fork, UT or Englewood, CO offices
  • Have a 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, master’s degree is preferred or equivalent professional experience
  • AWS: 3+ years’ experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, EMR, S3, Redshift, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, KMS, Kinesis Streams) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on Well Architected Framework.
  • DevOps: Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools. CI/CD process setup and support (Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, GitLab etc).
  • Scripting Skills:
    • AWS Infrastructure-as-a-Code using Terraform scripting.
    • Strong scripting (e.g. Python, shell) and automation skills.
  • Operating Systems: Linux/Ubuntu system administration.
  • Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. Nagios, Pager Duty, ZenOSS).
  • Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
  • Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and
  • services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
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Location

We have 2 headquarters in the Greater Denver area - you won't have to travel far! Business teams sit just south of DTC, while our IT team is downtown.

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