Senior AI-Driven DevOps & Platform Engineer

EchoStar Corporation; Christiansburg (VA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

EchoStar Corporation in Christiansburg, VA, seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to drive AI-enabled DevOps and scale cloud-native platforms across AWS and GCP. You will design Kubernetes environments, implement CI/CD and GitOps, and integrate monitoring with Dynatrace, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry, while enhancing security and reliability.

You will own SRE practices, define SLOs/SLIs, manage incidents, and mentor peers, with regular collaboration across engineering teams and occasional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/related field with 6+ years cloud/platform experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD and GitOps pipelines.
• Integrate automated testing and security validation.
• Define SLOs/SLIs and incident response procedures.
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve testing and deployment.
• Mentor junior engineers on reliability and cloud testing.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Security validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Amazon EKS

Google Kubernetes Engine

Terraform

Dynatrace

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

EchoStar Corporation in Christiansburg, VA, seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to drive AI-enabled DevOps and scale cloud-native platforms across AWS and GCP. You will design Kubernetes environments, implement CI/CD and GitOps, and integrate monitoring with Dynatrace, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry, while enhancing security and reliability.

You will own SRE practices, define SLOs/SLIs, manage incidents, and mentor peers, with regular collaboration across engineering teams and occasional