Senior Cloud Network Engineer

The Azure Networking Team is growing and we're looking for a Senior Cloud Network Engineer who can combine networking experience with software development fundamentals to help build the world's best private backbone network. Our team works to automate every facet of the network to converge on a self-growing, self-healing network.

Focusing on the global backbone network, and working closely with partner teams in Azure Networking, you'll be a critical part designing, developing, and deploying networking and automation aspects for the Wide Area Network. This will include owning components from design through to development and operations. This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Microsoft Azure and offers a terrific opportunity for technical and career growth.

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.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, scale and automate Microsoft global WAN network.
• Support innovation and cost management across teams by critically evaluating existing practices and tools developing ideas for simplifying and improving systems and tools that meet customer and/or business needs.
• Work in collaboration with teams across organization to develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance, network designs; independently produces design documents and implementation plans.
• Lead design, network/code and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release by applying expertise in network implementation, 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 identifies capabilities and limitations of existing tools and resources to ensure they can support design implementation and verification.
• Triage, troubleshoots, and repairs complex live site issues by applying expertise in physical network components and features (e.g., device operating systems), problem management tools (e.g., root cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems, repair items). Participates in on-call/DRI duties to resolve incidents in production and provides guidance to other engineers on triage, troubleshooting, and resolution processes.
• Collaborate within and across teams by proactively sharing information with an appropriate level of detail for their audience; overcomes obstacles by resolving conflicts and issues across interdependent teams and engages with partners and stakeholders so issues can be resolved and mutual objectives are met.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ 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 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 7+ years with routing protocols such as: ISIS, OSPF, BGP, Segment Routing technologies, or related.

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:

• 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding languages like Python, YAML, C#.
• Experience researching new and emerging technologies to better solve networking problems.
• Proven track record of fixing problems permanently.
• CCIE/JNCIE Certification

Cloud Network Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

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

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