The Senior Automation Engineer will design automated systems for 5G networks, lead AI initiatives, develop workflows, and mentor teams.
Company Summary
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.
Department Summary
Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Senior Automation Engineer sought by DISH Network, LLC in Littleton, Colorado.
Design and implement automated systems that enhance 5G network reliability, efficiency, and scalability. Design and develop scalable automation workflows to streamline network buildouts, upgrades, and monitoring. Lead AI-driven automation initiatives for intelligent orchestration and configuration management. Build and maintain microservices and APIs to enable efficient network operations, reduce manual intervention, and enhance performance. Support GenAI and multi-agent systems to enable autonomous decision-making, contextual data retrieval, and closed-loop remediation. Collaborate across engineering and data teams to ensure integration of automation and AI-driven tools within enterprise systems. Mentor engineers and foster adoption of best practices for automation, monitoring, and AI workflows .
Skills, Experience and Requirements
Requires Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Development, Computer Science, Information Technology, or closely related field, plus 4 years of experience in job offered or similar role as an Automation Engineer. Also requires 4 years of work experience with/using the following (which may have been gained concurrently):
Salary Ranges
Compensation: $145,000.00/Year - $145,000.00/Year
Benefits
Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.
Rate of Pay: $145,000.00
Benefits information available at echostar.com .
Apply at echostar.com . Ref: 2026-98744 if applying externally through careers.dish.com; Ref: 2026-98743 if applying internally. May also apply by emailing resume with (Ref: 2026-98744 ) to [email protected]. The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
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.
Department Summary
Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Senior Automation Engineer sought by DISH Network, LLC in Littleton, Colorado.
Design and implement automated systems that enhance 5G network reliability, efficiency, and scalability. Design and develop scalable automation workflows to streamline network buildouts, upgrades, and monitoring. Lead AI-driven automation initiatives for intelligent orchestration and configuration management. Build and maintain microservices and APIs to enable efficient network operations, reduce manual intervention, and enhance performance. Support GenAI and multi-agent systems to enable autonomous decision-making, contextual data retrieval, and closed-loop remediation. Collaborate across engineering and data teams to ensure integration of automation and AI-driven tools within enterprise systems. Mentor engineers and foster adoption of best practices for automation, monitoring, and AI workflows .
Skills, Experience and Requirements
Requires Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Development, Computer Science, Information Technology, or closely related field, plus 4 years of experience in job offered or similar role as an Automation Engineer. Also requires 4 years of work experience with/using the following (which may have been gained concurrently):
- Python, TypeScript, JavaScript (HTML/CSS), PHP
- Flask, Laravel, Pandas, Jinja, Angular
- AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, Route53, ECR)
- NSO, Camunda
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, PGAdmin, DBeaver
- Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Sentry
Docker, PM2 - Git, Jira
Salary Ranges
Compensation: $145,000.00/Year - $145,000.00/Year
Benefits
Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.
Rate of Pay: $145,000.00
Benefits information available at echostar.com .
Apply at echostar.com . Ref: 2026-98744 if applying externally through careers.dish.com; Ref: 2026-98743 if applying internally. May also apply by emailing resume with (Ref: 2026-98744 ) to [email protected]. The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
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