Principal Engineer, Systems Reliability (Performance Testing)

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Are you ready to join the Un-carrier movement?

If so, we're searching for a Principal Engineer who strategizes and ideates to improves and protects the software and systems behind all T-Mobiles IT services, including management of scalability, availability, latency, performance, security, and capacity, and delivering of software -faster, better, and cheaper. From crafting & maintaining CICD Pipelines to building the next generation of T-Mobile applications on cloud native platforms, our SRE's enable phenomenal customer experience and product innovation evolving operational support!

We pride ourselves on encouraging a culture of innovation, advocating for agile methodologies, and promoting transparency in all we do. Join us and embody the spirit of being 'Un-carrier and make a tangible impact!

Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Ideates and assists in crafting new designs, architectures, standards, repeatable processes, and methods for delivering software, and managing operations better, resulting in increased customer experience by continuous improvement of the operations of the applications.

Relationship and Leadership

• Leads and mentors a team of Systems Reliability Engineers, vendor resources, and leads improvement work or POCs as projects.

Technology and System

• Utilizes expert knowledge and skill in emerging DevOps-centric automation tools and technologies for CICD, configuration management, etc. for non-prod and production environments.
• Contributes to future improvement of software delivery processes and operations, e.g., cloud enablement, use of microservices with containerization.
• Delivers software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of T-Mobile’s services.
• Performs environment management, automated server provisioning (VMs), pipeline configuration.
• Builds, manages, and uses dashboard for continuous monitoring and health check of applications, and the underlying infrastructure, improve the quality of services using the monitoring feedback for non-production and production environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience Working in an Agile and Devops Environment. (Preferred)
• Experience With Devops Tools, Such As, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Etc. Experience In Docker, Kubernetes, Etc. (Preferred)
• Experience In Migrating to Cloud or Cloud Native Environments Experience (Preferred)
• Experience with the performance testing tool LoadRunner (Required)
• Cloud Computing (Preferred)
• 7-10 Years: Validated Experience. (Required)
• Experience In One Or More Of: C, C#, Java, Perl, Python, Go, Or Scripting Experience in Shell And Perl. (Required)
• Experience In Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Tools: Jenkins, Cloudbees, Etc., and Other Automation Tools. (Required)
• Experience In APM Tool, Like, Appdynamics, Logging Tool, Like Splunk. (Required)
• Experience in A Cloud Environment (Public/Private). (Required)
• Devops (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Master's/Advanced Degree: In Lieu Of Master’s Degree, Equivalent Proven Experience May Be Considered. (Required)

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:

• Travel Required (Yes/No):Yes

DOT Regulated:

• DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No
• Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No):No

Base Pay Range: $114,800 - $207,200

Corporate Bonus Target: 20%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, https://paylookup.t-mobile.com/paylookup?reqID=REQ270174&paradox=1

At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobile’s amazing benefits, check out www.t-mobilebenefits.com.

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As part of the T-Mobile team, you know the Un-carrier doesn’t have a corporate ladder–it’s more like a jungle gym of possibilities! We love helping our employees grow in their careers, because it’s that shared drive to aim high that drives our business and our culture forward. By applying for this career opportunity, you’re living our values while investing in your career growth–and we applaud it. You’re unstoppable!

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