Senior Manager – Platform Engineering & Automation in Bengaluru, KA, IN - DISH TV | Job Detail

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Senior Manager – Platform Engineering & Automation
DISH TV - Bengaluru, KA, IN
Job type: Fulltime-Regular
Resume required: Yes
Posted date: 2026-10-06

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Company Summary

DISH Network Technologies India Pvt. Ltd is a technology subsidiary of EchoStar. Our organization is at the forefront of technology, serving as a disruptive force and driving innovation and value on behalf of our customers.

Our product portfolio includes Boost Mobile (consumer wireless), DISH TV (direct broadcast satellite), Sling TV (over-the-top service provider), Hughes (global satellite connectivity solutions) and Hughesnet (satellite internet).

Our facilities in India are some of EchoStar's largest development centers outside the U.S. As a hub for technological convergence, our engineering talent is a catalyst for innovation in multimedia network and communications development.

EchoStar does not charge any fees to job applicants or candidates at any point during the recruitment and hiring process. We strongly advise all individuals to be vigilant and disregard any unsolicited requests for payment or personal financial information related to an EchoStar employment opportunity.

Our Wireless Technology team is pioneering the future of connectivity. We're developing unique hybrid mobile network operator (MNO) infrastructure—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

Architecture, Software Engineering, & AI Innovation

  • Platform Transformation: Pivot the team’s capabilities from writing localized scripts to architecting and owning resilient, from-scratch microservices platforms.
  • Technical Bar Raising: Focus mentorship on elevating IC capabilities, guiding engineers to master advanced software patterns, clean code principles, and robust platform architecture.
  • Pragmatic AI Leadership: Foster an AI-first culture within the engineering workflow. Guide the team to critically evaluate AI use cases for automation, identifying where AI accelerates delivery versus where it introduces structural pitfalls, security liabilities, or operational overhead.
  • Engineering Standards: Introduce and enforce high-quality software engineering principles, robust design patterns, code quality metrics, and rigorous test automation frameworks.

Product Ownership & Multi-Cloud Lifecycle Management

  • Agile Governance: Serve as the Product Owner for internal infrastructure and security delivery platforms; manage the roadmap, drive sprint planning, and execute precise backlog grooming.
  • Lifecycle Operations: Oversee the end-to-end operational workflows (build, distribute, track, and end-of-life deprecation) for compute instances spanning public cloud and diverse on-premises/hybrid environments.
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Interface closely with internal Security and Application teams to translate operational friction points into highly scalable platform integrations.

Leadership & Coaching Capabilities

  • Management Guidance: Provide strategic coaching and structural guidance to frontline engineering managers as individuals transition from IC roles into team leadership.
  • Critical Thinking: Instill a culture of systemic problem-solving, ensuring the team designs for long-term scalability across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Cross-Location Management: Successfully lead and align engineering performance across a distributed, two-location team structure.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Core Technical Requirements

  • Proven experience leading software engineering or platform engineering teams with an emphasis on building internal platforms from scratch.
  • Strong architectural background in microservices architectures and modern application delivery.
  • Hands-on proficiency and code-review-level familiarity with Python and JavaScript / TypeScript / React.
  • Strategic vision or experience steering teams toward Golang and Kubernetes-native development.
  • Deep operational experience managing infrastructure lifecycles across public cloud (AWS) and diverse on-premises/hybrid environments (e.g., VMware, virtualized compute platforms).
  • Architectural Mentorship: Proven track record of upskilling DevOps/SysAdmin teams into disciplined software and platform engineers capable of handling complex software architecture.
  • AI-First Competency: Strong conceptual and practical understanding of AI/ML integration in engineering workflows, with the ability to critically audit AI use cases for technical viability and pitfalls.

Leadership & Methodology Requirements

  • Demonstrated track record of acting as a Product Owner or working deeply within Agile/Scrum frameworks to manage backlogs and roadmaps.
  • People Leadership Maturity: Experience directly managing engineers, with the demonstrated capability to coach, onboard, and guide new or intermediate engineering managers.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between application developers, security engineers, and operational stakeholders.
  • Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or an equivalent technical field.

Benefits

  • Insurance and Wellbeing
  • Financial & Retiral Benefit Program
  • Mental Wellbeing
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
  • Professional Development Reimbursement
  • Time Off
  • Team Outings

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.

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Job reference: 2026-99952