Director, Transport - Telecom Services

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 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.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the VP of Network Engineering, the Director of Transport Services will be responsible for the end-to-end design of our EchoStar corporate services (which include all product lines and IT), data center services, capacity planning, performance monitoring and be accountable for the automation and analytics needed to deliver and support those services.

Our vision for EchoStar’s networks incorporates a highly-automated and highly resilient fault-tolerant network that powers a variety of telecom applications across the Corporation and around the world. You and your team will define, order, and operationally manage the end-to-end services, spanning all elements of connectivity and colocation of the network, from corporate locations, as well as local, regional and national data centers in both private and public cloud environments. You will, further, manage all customer connectivity and services supporting all lines of business and associated brands.

You will also be empowered to determine how this system is automatically defined in the network, and you will apply artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to evaluate and improve our performance. Interaction with transport and service providers will be essential, both with respect to the establishment of agreements, and operations under those agreements, including SLA management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build the team to support the overall objectives, including mentoring team members and guiding their career progression
• Collaborate with engineering and corresponding product team on activities and progress
• Provide technical input and insight during software design, development, code reviews, and testing
• Direct team members on development tasks and research
• Manage pricing and contract negotiations
• Perform transport operational management
• Oversee all ordering, design and management of various transport services such as local connectivity, Internet Access, LAN/WAN/VPN connectivity
• Manage datacenter requirement design, ordering, and management in both private and public environments
• Support public cloud providers where needed in the design of the network

Skills, Experience and Requirements

The successful candidate will bring a passion for working on new technologies into a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment. You will be able to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization and you will bring at least 10 years of experience managing teams of more than 10 engineers.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree highly preferred
• 10+ years of wire line network experience, wireless experience preferred but not required

Skills and Qualifications:

• Extensive networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
• Experience ordering circuits, dealing with transport providers, interconnect, number ordering, and overall connectivity with network elements
• Experience supporting transport/traffic engineering components of network projects, such as VoIP traffic, data sessions, E911, and IP-based technologies
• Detailed knowledge of fiber and satellite networks, including but not limited to, optical transmission technologies, Ethernet, wave, data networks, network synchronization, and microwave path design
• Familiarity with telecom standards such as 3GPP, IEEE, and ITU-T
• Detailed understanding of optical networks, OTN, DWDM, ROADM, FOADM, SDH, SONET, 40G/100G/200G/400G coherent optical transmission technologies, Ethernet, Wave, Switching, Routing, Data Networks, DCN, Synchronization of optical networks
• Detailed knowledge of various interface SDH/TON/DWDM products such as Ciena, Cisco, Infinera, Juniper series routers and switches, and Alcatel Lucent
• Experience implanting various OAM&P platforms, including but not limited to Ciena, Cisco, Juniper proNX, Northstar, Infinera, and ECI (EMS/NMS)
• Working knowledge of data and VoIP network architecture, infrastructure components, and data traffic engineering

Visa sponsorship not available for this role

Salary RangesCompensation: $185,000.00/Year - $235,000.00/Year Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here:.

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 based on work location.

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.

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.