Microsoft Senior Cloud Network Engineer 

Ireland, Dublin 

53095379

For this position, you should be familiar with network protocols, network devices include network interface cards, pluggable optics, switches and routers. You should feel comfortable working with large-scale chassis based distributed systems and the tools that manage them. You should be familiar with device failure modes and able to work with hardware partners to identify and escalate new and known failure patterns.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive 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 Extensive years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical 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:

• Experience in networking, scripting, and software development
• Familiarity/hands on experience with any network device operating systems (Sonic, Arista, Cisco, Juniper)
• Cisco CCNA (or equivalent) and experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and Windows servers
• Experience with writing automation in languages such as Python, Powershell or C#
• Experience with writing scripts that use REST APIs, Syslog, xml, SNMP, and other Network Management Systems
• Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals along with a basic understanding of IP networking MPLS, BGP, ISIS, OSPF and Anycast routing
• Experience managing and troubleshooting network issues
• Experience working on large scale networks
• Leadership, coordination and teamwork skills
• Ability to work independently on complex tasks
• Motivated to drive leading edge technologies
• Understanding of TCP/IP, BGP and AnyCast

• Harnessing Physical network data for precise failure analysis and proactive monitoring enhancements to improve network availability.
• Diagnosing and resolving network issues with minimal customer impact, backed by meticulous post-incident analysis as part of on-call responsibilities.
• Pioneering automated solutions to optimize network operations and incident management workflows.
• Work across SDN teams to identify tooling gaps, document failures, propose solutions and work across multiple engineering teams to get both short-term fixes and architectural improvements rolled out.
• Working with internal and external vendor engineers to troubleshoot issues found during Network health validation and field operations and drive for resolution.