Microsoft Senior Cloud Network Engineer 

United States, Washington 

855912123

Focusing on the global backbone network and collaborating closely with partner teams in Azure Networking, you’ll play a crucial role in designing, developing, and building networking and automation components for the Wide Area Network. You will oversee these components from the initial design phase through development and buildout. This high-visibility position, within a rapidly growing and heavily invested area of Microsoft Azure, presents an opportunity for both technical and career advancement.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 11+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,
  • OR related field AND 8+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,
  • OR related field AND 6+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,
  • OR related field AND 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation. 1+ year(s) experience delivering network designs into production and experience with live site accountability for a network
• Network engineering experience in a cloud provider, internet service provider or large enterprise environment
• Experience with routing protocols such as BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), and MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching), ISIS (Intermediate System to Intermediate System) and Segment Routing
• Professional software development experience in the networking domain, including Python, YAML, C#, REST, and workflow systems

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 27, 2024.

• Offers modification and improvements to network technologies based on existing and emerging industry knowledge to contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of reliable, scalable, and high-performance networks.
• Partners with engineering and Program Management teams to understand customer, business, and technical requirements to propose network designs or modifications to architecture; participates in architecture reviews to ensure designs and modifications meet all functional, performance, scale, and compliance requirements.
• Leads design, network/code and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release by applying expertise in network implementation, available technologies, analysis of telemetry pipelines, and root cause analysis.
• Triages, troubleshoots, and repairs complex live site issues by applying expertise in physical network components and features (e.g., device operating systems), problem management tools (e.g., root cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems, repair items), and/or low-level Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
• Demonstrates knowledge of data — knows what data is needed, how to find new or missing data and how to describe the impact of defects on customers or the impact of operations-focused scenarios on networks or infrastructure, as well as the relevance to product and service targets; identifies patterns and trends in data and interprets them to inform decisions related to improving and optimizing products and/or services.
• Collaborates within and across teams by proactively sharing information with an appropriate level of detail for their audience; overcomes obstacles by resolving conflicts and issues across interdependent teams and engages with partners and stakeholders so issues can be resolved and mutual objectives are met.
• Mentors and provides feedback to other engineers, while also proactively seeking mentorship and feedback from others; shares ideas and insights for improving team-oriented behaviors, including DevOps and live site handling skills.

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