Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Microsoft • ,

2d • $119,800 - $261,000

About The Position

As a Senior Cloud Network Engineer on the Azure Dedicated Team, you will design and operate network fabrics for traditional Ethernet networks and backend networks such as RDMA and InfiniBand, supporting the development and integration of next-generation AI workloads on Azure. You will create highly reliable and resilient designs and work with customers, industry vendors, third-party providers, and Microsoft colleagues to develop and operate networks handling petabits-per-second levels of traffic.

The role involves integrating network stacks and topologies with Azure’s planetary-scale networks, resolving production service issues, and developing reliable, secure, scalable, high-performance network designs. You will independently create design documents and implementation plans, lead reviews across teams, and participate in on-call and DRI duties. Microsoft describes its mission as empowering every person and organization to achieve more, and highlights a growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or a master's degree in one of these fields and 3+ years of technical experience in network design, development, and automation; or a bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 4+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 3+ years of technical experience in network design, development, and automation; or a master's degree in one of these fields and 6+ years of such experience; or a bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 8+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
• 1+ year of experience delivering network designs into production and experience with live-site accountability for a network.
• 1+ year of experience in a large-scale network ecosystem, owning design and end-to-end delivery standards.

Responsibilities

• Build deep partnerships with third parties to integrate network stacks and topologies with Azure networks through well-understood, documented designs.
• Triage, troubleshoot, repair, and identify root causes of service-impacting issues involving physical network components and features, including device operating systems.
• Diagnose and address issues with management tools and processes, including root-cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems, preventive repair items, and change management.
• Troubleshoot low-level APIs and register sets, and implement automated, long-term, secure, sustainable solutions with minimal or no customer disruption.
• Participate in on-call and DRI duties to resolve production incidents and guide other engineers through triage, troubleshooting, and resolution.
• Collaborate across teams to develop reliable, secure, scalable, high-performance network designs.
• Independently produce design documents and implementation plans, such as migration plans.
• Lead design, network/code, test-plan, and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent bugs before production release.
• Communicate customer impacts of design trade-offs and exceptions, and assess whether existing tools and resources can support design implementation and verification.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior