The Staff Cloud Engineer will design cloud solutions for 5G networks, manage Kubernetes environments, and enforce security standards while collaborating with stakeholders.
Company Summary
EchoStar builds solutions that help families and communities stay connected. We'll launch your career and empower you to change lives.
Our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV. We serve millions of customers with offerings ranging from satellite to streaming services and global to personal networking solutions.
Department Summary
Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Staff Cloud Engineer sought by DISH Wireless LLC in Plano, Texas. Validate and define the best cloud solution architecture for the Dish Wireless 5G ORAN Network. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather business and technical requirements for 5G infrastructure and services. Analyze and translate requirements into scalable, cloud-native solutions for 5G CORE computing environments. Establish and maintain development standards for complex, distributed systems, including 5G Core network functions. Set up development and code review standards for complex projects, and deploy applications. Document 5G solution architectures using clear, version-controlled diagrams and specifications. Leverage NLP and GenAl-based tools to assist in automated document generation, change logs, and troubleshooting playbooks. Define entry and exit criteria, test cases, and acceptance metrics for cloud-native 5G components and CNFs. Manage multi- region, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments (e.g., Amazon EKS) to support CNFs and cloud-native 5G functions. Automate the deployment of 5G CORE components. Enforce security best practices across 5G infrastructure. Monitor compliance with telecom and cloud
regulatory framework such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and 3GPP security standards.
Skills, Experience and Requirements
Requires Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer
Information Systems, or a closely related field plus 8 years of post-baccalaureate experience
in job offered or closely related. Also requires 5 years of work experience with/using the
following (which may have been gained concurrently):
environments, and NFV/SDN functions.
RESTvSphere, Tanzu, Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Bash,
Python, Go, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MySQL, Cassandra, OpenNESS, BMC,
IPMI, PXE boot, Selenium, Harbor, Robot, and RedFish.
Salary Ranges
Compensation: $180,000.00/Year - $180,000.00/Year
Benefits
Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background
check, which may include a drug test.
Rate of Pay: $180,000.00
Benefits information available at EchoStar Benefits .
Apply at careers.dish.com. Ref: 2026-99071 if applying externally through careers.dish.com;
Ref: 2026-99072 if applying internally. May also apply by emailing resume with (Ref:
2026-99071) to [email protected]. 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.
EchoStar builds solutions that help families and communities stay connected. We'll launch your career and empower you to change lives.
Our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV. We serve millions of customers with offerings ranging from satellite to streaming services and global to personal networking solutions.
Department Summary
Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Staff Cloud Engineer sought by DISH Wireless LLC in Plano, Texas. Validate and define the best cloud solution architecture for the Dish Wireless 5G ORAN Network. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather business and technical requirements for 5G infrastructure and services. Analyze and translate requirements into scalable, cloud-native solutions for 5G CORE computing environments. Establish and maintain development standards for complex, distributed systems, including 5G Core network functions. Set up development and code review standards for complex projects, and deploy applications. Document 5G solution architectures using clear, version-controlled diagrams and specifications. Leverage NLP and GenAl-based tools to assist in automated document generation, change logs, and troubleshooting playbooks. Define entry and exit criteria, test cases, and acceptance metrics for cloud-native 5G components and CNFs. Manage multi- region, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments (e.g., Amazon EKS) to support CNFs and cloud-native 5G functions. Automate the deployment of 5G CORE components. Enforce security best practices across 5G infrastructure. Monitor compliance with telecom and cloud
regulatory framework such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and 3GPP security standards.
Skills, Experience and Requirements
Requires Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer
Information Systems, or a closely related field plus 8 years of post-baccalaureate experience
in job offered or closely related. Also requires 5 years of work experience with/using the
following (which may have been gained concurrently):
- Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenShift, and VMware
- Open-stack, infrastructure virtualization concepts, system management, cloud
environments, and NFV/SDN functions.
- PaaS and PaaS level solutions, cloud storage solutions, on-prem private clouds.
- 5G architecture and RAN concepts, Linux Kernel optimization and tuning, and
RESTvSphere, Tanzu, Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Bash,
Python, Go, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MySQL, Cassandra, OpenNESS, BMC,
IPMI, PXE boot, Selenium, Harbor, Robot, and RedFish.
Salary Ranges
Compensation: $180,000.00/Year - $180,000.00/Year
Benefits
Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background
check, which may include a drug test.
Rate of Pay: $180,000.00
Benefits information available at EchoStar Benefits .
Apply at careers.dish.com. Ref: 2026-99071 if applying externally through careers.dish.com;
Ref: 2026-99072 if applying internally. May also apply by emailing resume with (Ref:
2026-99071) to [email protected]. 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.
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