Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Microsoft • ,

7d • $119,800 - $261,000

About The Position

The Azure Dedicated team is a tightly integrated vertical team who have an exciting charter to deploy any workload anywhere in the world to Azure. Workloads span industries from Fintech and general purpose scenarios like Storage all the way to gigantic scale AI training workloads. We have a multi-disciplinary team working cohesively to innovate at bleeding edge and deliver for our customers, some of the most well known names in the world. As a Senior Cloud Network Engineer in the Azure Dedicated Team, you will design Network Fabrics for both traditional ethernet networks and back-end networks such as RDMA and Infiniband to allow our organization to build and integrate the next generation of AI workloads to Azure. You will seek to create highly reliable and resilient designs and seek to learn and grow at the forefront of one of the hottest spaces in the tech industry for the foreseeable future. You will interface with customers, industry vendors, 3rd party providers and fellow Microsoft colleagues daily producing world-class designs to manage Pbps level of traffic. This opportunity will allow you to build your skill set with real scale out networks, develop a bigger and wider network in the industry and satisfy some of the most demanding customer needs. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Requirements

• 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.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Doctorate 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 Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ 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 8+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience delivering network designs into production and experience with live site accountability for a network.

Responsibilities

• Drive deep and complex partnerships with 3rd parties to satisfy seamless integrations of various network stacks and topologies to interface cleanly with Azure’s planetary-scale networks through well understood and well documented designs.
• Triage, troubleshoot, repair, and root cause service impact issues by applying learnings and insights in physical network components and features (e.g., device operating systems). Triage, troubleshoot, and repair, and root cause management tools/processes (e.g., root cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems, repair items to prevent recurrence, change management). Triage, troubleshoot, and repair, and root cause low-level Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and register sets, to diagnose and address problems using automated, long-term, secure, and sustainable solutions with minimal or no disruption to customers.
• Participate in on-call/DRI duties to resolve incidents in production and provide guidance to other engineers on triage, troubleshooting, and resolution processes.
• Work in collaboration with teams across a single organization to develop reliable, secure, scalable, and high-performance, network designs. Independently produce design documents and implementation plans (e.g., migration).
• Lead design, network/code, test plan, and security reviews across teams in the same organization to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release by applying learnings or insights from previous network implementation, currently available technologies, analysis of telemetry pipelines, and root cause analysis, as well as best practices in identifying and implementing solutions.
• Articulate the customer impact of design trade-offs and exceptions, and identify capabilities and limitations of existing tools and resources to ensure they can support design implementation and verification.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree