Principal DevOps & Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Cloud

Vance Airscoop; Christiansburg (VA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

DISH Network LLC is seeking a Principal DevOps/Platform Engineer in Christiansburg, VA, to drive AI-enabled DevOps practices across AWS and GCP, and to enhance Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable platform engineering.

The candidate will lead testing strategies, service reliability metrics, and incident response while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with leadership on testing standards and automation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IS Security or related field with 6+ years of platform/devops experience.
• 6 years designing, deploying, and managing large-scale Kubernetes environments (EKS, GKE).
• 6 years designing high-availability, multi-region cloud architectures.
• 5 years observability/monitoring incl. distributed tracing, metrics, logging.
• 5 years IaC using Terraform.
• 3 years CI/CD and GitOps implementation.
• 3 years SRE practice including SLOs/SLIs and incident runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Drive AI-enabled DevOps by integrating Generative AI tools into the SDLC for code generation, testing, incident analysis, and productivity improvements.
• Design and implement cloud-based environments on AWS and GCP to support scalable, high-availability applications.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks to improve quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate automated testing, performance testing, and security validation into CI/CD.
• Define SLOs/SLIs and incident response procedures to improve application stability.
• Mentor engineers on test automation, performance engineering, and cloud-based testing methods.
• Travel to HQ in Denver, CO twice a year.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Observability

IaC (Terraform)

SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IS Security or related

Tools

Dynatrace

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Job description

DISH Network LLC is seeking a Principal DevOps/Platform Engineer in Christiansburg, VA, to drive AI-enabled DevOps practices across AWS and GCP, and to enhance Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable platform engineering.

The candidate will lead testing strategies, service reliability metrics, and incident response while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with leadership on testing standards and automation