Staff Engineer – Cloud Platform Strategy, Governance & Operations

Staff Engineer – Cloud Platform Strategy, Governance & Operations (DISH Wireless LLC, Littleton, Colorado)

Define and own the long-term enterprise cloud architecture blueprint, including multi-year infrastructure evolution planning, technology standardization frameworks, and cross-business architectural alignment (25% of the time).

Establish enterprise-wide cloud governance policies, including formal disaster recovery policy design, enterprise data lifecycle governance, regulatory alignment controls, and internal compliance auditing frameworks (20% of the time).

Develop and maintain enterprise cloud security architecture models, including identity governance strategy, zero-trust architecture design principles, encryption standards definition, and risk governance frameworks (20% of the time).

Perform enterprise cloud technology portfolio evaluation, including market assessments, capability benchmarking, and long‑range architectural direction setting for platform modernization (15% of the time).

Serve as enterprise architecture approver for cloud initiatives, providing formal architectural review and sign‑off authority to ensure compliance with enterprise design principles (10% of the time).

Develop enterprise-level cloud financial planning models, including multi-year forecasting, infrastructure investment analysis, and cost governance policy design (10% of the time).

Location:

DISH Wireless LLC – 5701 S Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, Colorado 80120

Salary: $169,062 to $180,000 per year.

• Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer & Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Systems Analyst, Technology Analyst, or any occupation, job title, or position designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable cloud and infrastructure platforms in an enterprise environment.
• 5 years of professional experience developing and maintaining automation scripts (including Power Shell and Python) to support cloud infrastructure, deployment workflows, and system administration tasks.
• 5 years of professional experience using CI/CD and version control tools, including Jenkins and Git Lab, to build, test, stage, and deploy infrastructure and application components.
• 5 years of professional experience designing, deploying, and supporting hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure environments, including AWS (EC2, S3, Cloud Watch, Glue, Athena, Quick Sight), Kubernetes, and on-premises systems.
• 5 years of professional experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, including AWS Cloud Formation, to provision, configure, and manage cloud resources in scalable and repeatable environments.
• 5 years of professional experience administering and maintaining virtualized and containerized environments, including VMware and Kubernetes, to support enterprise application and infrastructure needs.
• 5 years of professional experience managing enterprise network components, including gateways, DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (IPAM), ensuring secure and reliable connectivity.
• 5 years of professional experience performing server administration and infrastructure maintenance, including system configuration, monitoring using Cloud Watch, Grafana, and Kibana, patching, and troubleshooting.
• 5 years of professional experience working with data platforms and distributed systems, including SQL/No
  
  SQL databases, Big Query, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, and Impala, to support scalable cloud-based solutions.
• 5 years of professional experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and third‑party vendors to review technical deliverables, resolve infrastructure issues, and ensure solutions meet operational, scalability, and security requirements.
• 5 years of professional experience implementing deployment, monitoring, and operational best practices to support reliable, maintainable, and secure enterprise cloud platforms.

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