Principal Engineer II - Aviation Software, Germantown, MD

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.

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play a vital role in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Principal Engineer II - Customer Networks sought by Hughes Network System LLC. in Germantown, MD

Define, design, and administer network systems used for data communications. Recommend improvements necessary to ensure operation of the company’s high traffic, business critical, and internet production environment. Manage the load configuration of a central data communication processor. Propose and implement network system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the network system. Apply capacity planning to business recommendations. Address performance analysis, scalability, and service architecture/database administration issues.  Coordinate equipment orders including terminals and cable installation. Upgrade, monitor, test, and service the database and systems. Lead the development of our next generation observability platforms. Drive the effort to fully integrate current and existing ITSM platforms into network service management systems. Represent divisional Data Governance compliance and strategic data architecture/pipeline planning. Guide engineering development of support applications to ensure stable long term integrations. Lead architectural efforts to ensure design for scale is incorporated. 

Requires: Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence , Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field plus 10 years of experience in job offered or similar roles. 

Must have 10 years of experience in each of the following:

C++/Java;  TCP/IP,    SSH, and  various  networking protocol stacks

Experience must include 3 years in each of the following (which may have been gained concurrently):

• DNS 
• Zabbix NMS platform
• Distributed containerized architecture
• API integrations
• Device and appliance management
• Custom monitoring plugins
• SNMP, COBRA, SOAP and XML 
• Kafka and MQTT 

Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.

Rate of Pay: $191,173.00/Year

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