Senior Cloud Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026.
What Success Looks Like (Objectives):
Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview, which may include a live whiteboarding or technical assessment session.
Boost Mobile is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support automated deployment and management in AWS cloud-native environments. The position focuses on driving automated recovery and zero-touch provisioning across next-gen 5G infrastructure. Key focus areas include technical leadership, mentoring junior talent, and architecting highly available, fault-tolerant platform infrastructure to optimize performance metrics.
What Success Looks Like (Objectives):
- Serve as a technical leader to mentor junior engineers, onboard new team members, and resolve complex programming and design challenges
- Design, build, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant platform and AWS cloud infrastructure solutions
- Establish organizational standards for infrastructure tuning, deployment, backup, and automation processes while monitoring key system metrics like MTBF and MTTR
- Drive automated responses to system incidents to minimize manual intervention and streamline triage workflows
- Leverage AI tools and AI applications to optimize cloud infrastructure monitoring, predictive capacity planning, and automated incident triage
Core Skills, Competencies, and Key Experiences (What you’ll bring)
Core Skills and Competencies (What you’ll bring):
- Deep technical expertise in administering AWS cloud services (ECR, EC2, ECS, IAM), databases, and operating systems
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills to clarify requirements, resolve ambiguities, and align technical strategies across teams
- Critical experience with container orchestration and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling including Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation, and GitLab
- Strong programming background in languages such as Python, or advanced Shell scripting
- Critical experience with system metrics tracking, incident management, standard operating procedures, and technical documentation
- AI Application and AI Literacy competency, with the ability to integrate modern AI tools to enhance infrastructure automation and deployment workflows
Additional Qualifications:
- Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, automating deployments, cluster management, and systems security within a CI/CD pipeline
- Background in Linux or Windows system administration, including configuration, performance tuning, and OS troubleshooting
- Familiarity with Agile at Scale, SAFe, or Lean Systems Engineering frameworks
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification
Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum Education: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; or equivalent related experience
- Minimum Experience: 4+ years of experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or related cloud technologies
- Required Technical Skills: Must have at least 4 years of experience with:
- Strong programming skills in Python or advanced Shell scripting
- AWS Cloud Services (ECR, EC2, ECS, IAM)
- Automated deployment and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitLab)
Visa sponsorship not available for this position
Salary Range
Compensation: $96,250.00/Year - $137,500.00/Year
About Our Department
Our Wireless Technology team is pioneering the future of connectivity. We're developing and enhancing a unique hybrid network model-combining our advanced, cloud-native 5G core with the nationwide reach of our partners. This approach ensures our network is flexible and powerful, designed to satisfy the social, economic, and transformative needs of the changing world.
About Our Company
EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.
Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.
Benefits
We offer meaningful health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan. Review a benefits summary here:EchoStar Benefits
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies. Compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change.
Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.
This job posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.
EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications. If you have questions regarding your application or the recruitment process please email [email protected].
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Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview, which may include a live whiteboarding or technical assessment session.
Boost Mobile is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support automated deployment and management in AWS cloud-native environments. The position focuses on driving automated recovery and zero-touch provisioning across next-gen 5G infrastructure. Key focus areas include technical leadership, mentoring junior talent, and architecting highly available, fault-tolerant platform infrastructure to optimize performance metrics.
What Success Looks Like (Objectives):
- Serve as a technical leader to mentor junior engineers, onboard new team members, and resolve complex programming and design challenges
- Design, build, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant platform and AWS cloud infrastructure solutions
- Establish organizational standards for infrastructure tuning, deployment, backup, and automation processes while monitoring key system metrics like MTBF and MTTR
- Drive automated responses to system incidents to minimize manual intervention and streamline triage workflows
- Leverage AI tools and AI applications to optimize cloud infrastructure monitoring, predictive capacity planning, and automated incident triage
Core Skills and Competencies (What you’ll bring):
- Deep technical expertise in administering AWS cloud services (ECR, EC2, ECS, IAM), databases, and operating systems
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills to clarify requirements, resolve ambiguities, and align technical strategies across teams
- Critical experience with container orchestration and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling including Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation, and GitLab
- Strong programming background in languages such as Python, or advanced Shell scripting
- Critical experience with system metrics tracking, incident management, standard operating procedures, and technical documentation
- AI Application and AI Literacy competency, with the ability to integrate modern AI tools to enhance infrastructure automation and deployment workflows
Additional Qualifications:
- Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, automating deployments, cluster management, and systems security within a CI/CD pipeline
- Background in Linux or Windows system administration, including configuration, performance tuning, and OS troubleshooting
- Familiarity with Agile at Scale, SAFe, or Lean Systems Engineering frameworks
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification
Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum Education: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; or equivalent related experience
- Minimum Experience: 4+ years of experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or related cloud technologies
- Required Technical Skills: Must have at least 4 years of experience with:
- Strong programming skills in Python or advanced Shell scripting
- AWS Cloud Services (ECR, EC2, ECS, IAM)
- Automated deployment and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitLab)
Visa sponsorship not available for this position