# Senior Manager, Automation Platform Engineering

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. The current network operation landscape relies on manual, human-centric workflows that struggle to scale with nationwide demands. This role addresses these inefficiencies by architecting a proprietary software ecosystem that transitions the organization toward AI-augmented autonomous operations. By bridging the gap between deep telco-cloud technical debt and high-value business outcomes, this leader will drive the development of self-healing systems that significantly reduce MTTR and optimize OpEx. What Success Looks Like (Objectives) Lead the end-to-end design and development of scalable, proprietary automation software used to diagnose and resolve production issues at a nationwide scale Drive the platform roadmap toward Closed-Loop AI Automation, prioritizing the evolution from basic scripts to intelligent, self-healing recovery workflows Architect high-concurrency, event-driven systems using Kafka and Microservices to replace legacy manual processes with robust internal tools Oversee the in

- **Id**: 4245403
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/echostar-senior-manager-automation-platform-engineering>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Littleton, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T15:27:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:29:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9452
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Internet Service Providers

## Company

- **Id**: 1846584
- **Name**: EchoStar
- **Domain**: echostar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/echostar>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Jibe

## Salary

- **Min**: 127050
- **Max**: 181500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 181500

## Technologies

- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:25:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.455
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T14:17:32Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 181500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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