Senior Engineer System Architecture - Network Automation

Company: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Location: Herndon
Posted on: May 21, 2025

Job Description:

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Job Overview:

In 2024, we embarked on an ambitious initiative to build the T-Mobile Cloud, designed to support the most demanding Engineering workloads. As we move into 2025, we are preparing to deploy this cloud solution into production, with a clear focus on migrating a diverse range of critical applications. These applications require robust network and security capabilities, and we are committed to enhancing our automation processes to enable seamless self-service capabilities.

As we transition to full-scale production, we are expanding our team by bringing on both full-time employees and external vendors to support the automation journey. The full-time employee in this position will be responsible for overseeing the following key areas:

---Provide guidance and leadership to vendors on T-Mobile's architecture.

---Participate in automation initiatives for functions that fall outside the scope of the vendor's Statement of Work (SOW).

---After the vendor's maintenance period concludes, we will assume full responsibility for the automation processes and work to continuously improve them.

Job Responsibilities:

In this role, you will collaborate closely with the team to develop and enhance Terraform automation processes, ensuring optimal infrastructure management and efficiency. You will also provide guidance and oversight to our vendors, ensuring their code adheres to T-Mobile's best practices and standards. As we continue to evolve our Network architecture, you will play a key role in enabling automation.

Your contributions will include:

• Manage Source code and CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab.
• Contributes to designs to implement new ideas which utilize new frameworks to improve an existing or new system/process/service.
• Review existing designs and processes to highlight better ways to complete existing workload more effectively.
• Collaborates with technical teams and utilizes system expertise to deliver technical solutions.
• Continuously learns and teaches others existing and new technologies.
• Contributes to new and existing technology options that support business goals.
• Expected to independently develop automation using Terraform. Understands the building blocks, interactions, dependencies, and tools required to complete software and automation work.
• Interact with system engineers to define system requirement and/or necessary requirements for automation.
• Writes basic documentation on how technology works. Creates clear documentation for new code and systems used.
• Documenting systems designs, presentations, and business requirements for consumption and consideration at the manager level.
  
  Education and Work Experience:
  
  
  • Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science (Required)
  • Experience in automating using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Restful API, Python, Gitlab and some System Administrator of RHEL.
  • Comfortable in writing code for production.
  • 4+ years in Datacenter Network Automation and Architecture.
    
    Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
    
    
    • Focus: Able to develop and communicate goals in support of the business' mission. (Required)
    • Drive: Self-motivated and able to work well under pressure with minimal supervision (Required)
    • Communication: The ability to ensure that information is passed on to others who should be kept informed. Express self clearly in conversations and interactions with others. Clear business and technical writing skills. (Required)
    • Customer Focus: Manage customer intakes, expectations, and deliver testable and repeatable results for various customer requirements. Translate customer requests into technical requirements for manifests and modules. The ability to demonstrate concern and meet external and/or internal customers' needs. (Required)
    • Technical Expertise: The ability to demonstrate depth of knowledge and skill in a technical area. Investigate errors using dashboards, code, and other methods to determine remedial actions. Generate procedures, change records, and other documents as required. Linux and Network knowledge. (Required)
    • Forward Thinking: The ability to anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies. (Required)
    • Influencing Others: The ability to gain adjacent team's support for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions. (Required)
    • Inspiring Others: Ability to convey confidence in employees' ability to be successful, especially at (Required)
    • Conceptual Thinking: The ability to find effective solutions by taking a holistic, abstract, or theoretical perspective. (Required)
    • Fostering Innovation: The ability to develop, sponsor, or support the introduction of new and improved method, products, procedures, or technologies. (Required)
      
      Licenses and Certifications:
      
      
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      • 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: $100,100 - $180,600
        
        Corporate Bonus Target: 15%
        
        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, click here .
        
        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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        T-Mobile USA, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All decisions concerning the employment relationship will be made without regard to age, race, ethnicity, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, religious affiliation, marital status, citizenship status, veteran status, the presence of any physical or mental disability, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Discrimination, retaliation or harassment based upon any of these factors is wholly inconsistent with how we do business and will not be tolerated.
        
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