Cloud Network Engineer

As a Cloud Network Engineer, you will be at the heart of Microsoft's modern network engineering process, working in a team that manages Microsoft's corporate hybrid hosting infrastructures, and enabling seamless connectivity, workload migrations to Azure. We are focused on solving the most interesting challenges of developing innovative solutions while ensuring service reliability through identifying and eradicating defects within the infrastructure. We are growing a strong, diverse team of engineers and have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more.

Network Design and Implementation

• You will apply Knowledge of Networks, Industry Trends, and Field Data towards implementation and operations.
• Hybrid connectivity / unified network fabric - You will translate high-level design into low-level design and collaboration.
• Design Reviews and Quality Assurance - You will participate or contribute to network design or code reviews.

Maintain and Operate Networks

• You will monitor, analyze & debug, and troubleshoot network infrastructure; participate in on-call/Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) duties and create root cause analysis for network incidents.

• Continuous Improvement, testing and validation of network components.

• Deployment Management - You will work within a team of engineers to manage network deployments, work with a machine-readable definition of the network deployment.

• You will troubleshoot network routing protocols (e.g., IPv4, IPv6, OSPF, BGP), TCP/UDP/HTTP(s), and overlay technologies such as EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG.

• You will build network and security management expertise to drive compliance against security objectives.

• You will demonstrate proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. This includes the ability to:

• Design and manage deployment pipelines

• Author and maintain Bicep templates

• Handle pull request workflows effectively

• Deploy and update both new and existing cloud network infrastructure.

• In addition, your expertise in LLMs and SLMs will be considered a significant asset, bringing added value to the team's innovation and automation capabilities.

Supporting People and Execution

• Collaboration - You will collaborate within and across teams by proactively sharing information with an appropriate level of 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 mutual objectives are met.
• Mentorship / Development - You will be a mentor/mentee 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.

• 2+ 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

• 2+ years of technical experience in network engineering which must include layer 2 analysis and troubleshooting TCP/IP routing & switching

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years Scripting skills (Perl, Python, PowerShell, and C# are preferred, but not a strict requirement) in both Linux and Windows environment.

Cloud Network Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $109,000 - $180,400 per year.

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