Next Generation Satellite Network Architect Echostar Corporation
Germantown, MD

Job Description

EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) headquartered in Englewood, CO, with additional locations world-wide, is a premier global provider of satellite solutions and technology services. Together with its major subsidiaries-EchoStar Satellite Services and Hughes Network Systems- EchoStar offers employees the opportunity to explore the boundaries of what's possible in the fields of engineering and the business functions transforming this engineering into revenue.

Hughes has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Engineer within the software development team. This position would be located at our office in Germantown, MD. This position will help Hughes develop software applications to enhance our suite of ActiveTechnologies (https://www.hughes.com/technologies/multi-branch-technologies/active-technologies). The right candidate will be working on developing client/server applications that are used to carry different types of traffic. The traffic between the client and server is prioritized based on classification rules.

Responsibilities:

* Contribute to the achievement of the organization's strategic goals. Understand the organization's strategic vision; translate it into individual and team goals; and prepare long and short-term plans for getting the stated goals achieved.
* Demonstrate initiative in advancing the technology of the company; vision to identify strategic opportunities and directions in technology trends; and the ability to initiate action to achieve success in strategic opportunities.
* Provide technical management of small, medium, and large -sized projects. Demonstrate ability to plan, organize, direct and control work and resources to successful project completion in terms of schedule, budget, reusability, and future product opportunities. Establish objectives for teams and team members in accordance with project objectives and provide leadership such that team members meet those objectives. Convey high expectations and set aggressive but realistic objectives. Represent the team to management and peers, and keep management apprised of requirements, status and performance.
* Design, implement and test of significant, state-of-the-art networking enhancements to HughesON Active Technologies mostly in the areas of adapting existing functionality to operate in a variety of virtual machine-type settings.
* be responsible for selecting and applying to HughesON Active Technologies third party open-source technologies including Virtual Machines, LINUX Containers, VPN and crypto libraries and related technologies for high-speed networking functionality including DPDK, SR-IOV while working thru issues associated with those technologies with little or no help from more senior technical staff.
* be responsible for configuring LINUX operating systems (kernel and user environment) to optimize their support of HughesOn technologies.
* review and coach the design and development of networking enhancements to HughesON Active Technologies where the design and implementation of those features are the primary responsibility of junior and mid-level software engineers.

Required Qualifications:

* Master's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience in development in networking technologies.
* 10+ years of experience in system design and software development.
* 10+ years solid knowledge of development in C and C++.
* 5+ years network (WAN/LAN) Engineering (both Layer 2 and 3) experience in Service Provider Network or Enterprise Network environment.
* 5+ years experience in networking communications protocols (TCP, IPv4, IPv6, IPSec, Ethernet internals) operating a level with some team leadership and demonstrating the ability to effectively produce production-ready solutions without more senior technical assistance.
* 5+ years SDN knowledge and development experience.
* 5+ years of familiarity with standard software engineering practices of version control (clearcase, git), configuration management, testing, root cause analysis and quality assurance. In-depth understanding of Intel IA processor Architecture (CPU micro architecture, cache & memory, IO and virtualization) etc.
* 2+ years of experience on Python programming and script programming such as Perl and shell.
* 2+ years of deploying virtualized application in Linux environments - KVM, OpenStack, VMWare demonstrating the ability to effectively produce production-ready solutions without more senior technical assistance; Linux Networking and administration on OpenStack, VMWare ESXi, KVM, RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Understanding of SDN architecture and technology (control plane, data plane, management plane, orchestration, etc.).
* Open networking, open API, and open platform development experience.
* Cloud computing experience.
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
* Excellent teamwork skills, result oriented and self-motivated.
* Excellent troubleshooting skills.

EchoStar and its Affiliated Companies are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law. U.S. Citizenship is required for certain positions. EEO is the law.