Microsoft Senior Cloud Network Engineer 

United States 

330650485

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Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years 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 4+ years 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 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experienced with layer 2 analysis and troubleshooting TCP/IP routing & switching.

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:

• 3+ years Scripting skills (Perl, Python, PowerShell, and C# are preferred, but not a strict requirement) in both Linux and Windows environment.
• Experience working in an agile environment with high organizational complexity.
• Experience successfully planning and supporting large scale, geo-distributed, high availability enterprise services.
• Experience in program or project management to plan, design, deploy and document customer solutions.
• Experience creating internal and external documentation such as standard operating procedures for internal use andcustomer facingknowledge resources with the help of engineering resources.

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

Primary Responsibilities

• Translate security,businessand functional requirements into a technical solution.
• Engage with security & internal customers to design and implement connectivity solutionsleveragingAzure services andappropriate technologyrequiredto meet cost, interoperability, and security requirements.
• Participate in Live-Site activitiespertaining tocompliance, security, and availability incidents.
• Participate in on-call (DRI) and customer issue intake processes.
• Assess and triage application owner/customer consult requests within the context of the Azure infrastructure stack (compute/networking/storage) to further modernize and secure overall architecture in the environment.
• Design and implement hybrid networking topologies to provide minimallyrequiredconnectivity for internal Microsoft workloads.
• Develop automation to scale work out or ensure quality as work is distributed within the team. Bicep and PowerShell.
• Set standards in alignment with the service leadership and ensure these standards are met across services under different workloads.
• Work on the service platform and continuous delivery process to drive improvements in service reliability, as well as working with product development teams on improving these.

Maintain and Operate Networks

• Monitoring,analyze& debugging, and Troubleshooting network infrastructure;participatein on-call/DesignatedResponsible Individual (DRI) duties and create root cause analysis for network incidents.
• Continuous Improvement, testing and validation of network devices.
• Deployment Management - Work within a team of engineers to manage network deployments, work with a machine-readable definition ofthe networkdeployment.
• Troubleshooting of network routing protocols (e.g., IPv4, IPv6, OSPF, BGP), TCP/UDP/HTTP(s), and overlay technologies such as EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG.
• Drive compliance against security complianceobjectives

Supporting People and Execution

• withinand across teams by proactively sharing information withan appropriate levelof detail for their audience; overcome obstacles by resolving conflicts and issues across interdependent teams and engage with partners and stakeholders so issues can be resolved, and mutualobjectivesare met.
• Mentorship / Development - Mentor and provide feedback to other engineers, while also proactively seeking mentorship and feedback from others; share ideas and insights for improving team-oriented behaviors, including DevOps and live site handling skills.
• Embody our