Microsoft Regional Network Planner 

Singapore 

111764151

The Infrastructure Planning and Execution (IPE) organization is seeking a
Regional Network Planner

This role and the team are part of a critical function that will be the single point of contact for infrastructure sourcing teams and serve as the key interface between IPE and external partner teams. This role will focus on:

• Collecting, maintaining, and providing market and supply intelligence to drive optimal long- term regional network plans
• Analysis of regional demand and supply inputs to arrive at optimal network plans
• Coordinating and driving infrastructure decisions to align on network plans
• Coordinating with finance on financial analysis and decision alignment
• Driving process and systems optimization for the infrastructure planning and execution process.

Required:

• BS/BE degree required;
• 4+ years’ experience of network and DC technologies, design, and construction principles
• Experience in planning cloud specific infrastructure
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to drive projects, and build buy-in and support

Preferred:

• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft’s regional network and datacenter architectures
• 4+ years’ experience in cross functional program management, especially in a strategy, planning and decision-making environment
• 4+ years’ experience in data and analysis required for decision making
• 4+ years’ experience in process optimization and mapping processes to tools

• Develop approaches and provide advanced technical guidance on building regional integrated infrastructure network plans
• Drive key decisions required for alignment on infrastructure plans
• Develop systematic process for creating, maintaining, tracking and reporting on infrastructure plans
• Drive development of tools and systems requirements for infrastructure master planning/tracking
• Drive close collaboration with CO+I engineering teams on delivering systems and tools
• Serve as the interface between Infrastructure sourcing teams and demand / supply planning teams