Overview
Senior Cloud Network Engineer role at Microsoft. The Azure Hyperscale Networking/Physical Network team builds and operates the physical networks behind regional and data center infrastructure to support Cloud & AI services.
We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build and operate networks powering the world’s largest cloud and AI services. The PhyNet Network Health group focuses on Network Design, Operational Implementation, Engineering, and supporting various first-party groups within Microsoft. This team is critical to the success of Microsoft as services grow and the need for a reliable network increases.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we grow, innovate, collaborate, and uphold values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture.
Responsibilities
* Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
* Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
* Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and ROI.
* Leverages subject-matter expertise and partners with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup\'s project plans, release plans, and work items.
* Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, on-call monitoring for degradation or downtime, alerting stakeholders, and initiating actions to restore service for simple and complex problems.
* Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to trends and solutions to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance, while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
* Technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
* OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
* OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
* OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Other Qualifications
* Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role, including, but not limited to, the Microsoft Cloud Background Check on hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
* Experience delivering network designs into production and live site accountability for a network.
* Experience in networking, scripting, and software development. Familiarity with network device operating systems (Sonic, Arista, Cisco, Juniper).
* Cisco CCNA (or equivalent) and experience with Linux/Unix and Windows servers.
* Writing automation in languages such as Python, PowerShell or C#.
* Writing scripts that use REST APIs, Syslog, XML, SNMP, and other Network Management Systems.
* Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals and basic understanding of IP networking MPLS, BGP, ISIS, OSPF and Anycast routing.
* Experience managing and troubleshooting network issues on large-scale networks.
* Leadership, coordination, and teamwork skills; ability to work independently on complex tasks.
* Motivated to drive leading-edge technologies with understanding of TCP/IP, BGP and AnyCast.
Security and Compliance
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Seniority level
* Not Applicable
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
Industries
* Software Development
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