Cloud Network Engineering IC4

As a Senior 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 hybrid development workloads from on premise Lab networks 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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translate security, business and functional requirements into a technical solution.
• Engage with security & internal customers to design and implement connectivity solutions leveraging Azure services and appropriate network technology required to meet cost, interoperability, and security requirements.
• Participate in Live-Site activities pertaining to compliance, security, and availability incidents.
• Participate in on-call (DRI) and customer issue intake processes.
• Assess and triage application owner/customer consult network connectivity requests within the from the traditional lab networking connecting to Azure infrastructure stack (compute/networking/storage) to further modernize and secure overall architecture in the environment.
• Design and implement hybrid networking topologies to provide minimally required connectivity for internal Microsoft workloads.
• Develop automation to scale work out or ensure quality as work is distributed within the team. Python and Agentic AI.
• 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; participate in on-call/Designated Responsible 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 of the network deployment.
• Troubleshooting of network routing protocols (e.g., IPv4, IPv6, OSPF, BGP), TCP/UDP/HTTP(s), and overlay technologies such as EVPN, VXLAN, MLAG
• Experience with Palo Alto Firewalls with Panorama, Arista, Cisco, F5.
• Drive compliance against security compliance objectives.

Supporting People and Execution

• Collaboration - 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 - 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.

• Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• 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 Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR equivalent experience., * 7+ years of technical experience in network engineering which must include layer 2 analysis and troubleshooting TCP/IP routing & switching, network design, development, and automation.
• 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:
• 3 + years Scripting skills (Python, Ansible are preferred, but not a strict requirement) in both Linux and Windows environment.
• Experience working in an agile environment with high organizational complexity.
• Track record in 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.
• Create internal and external documentation such as standard operating procedures for internal use and customer facing knowledge resources with the help of engineering resources
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft Digital(MSD) builds and manages the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day. Microsoft Digital employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.

We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

The Microsoft Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES) organization is for those technology professionals who want to be strategic partners to the business and be the first place to create innovative solutions using Microsoft and industry leading products and services. Unlike other enterprise organizations, IES employees create global impact for thousands of partners and employees.

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