Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

As part of the Identity and Network Access division, you’ll work on foundational services that keep the global software and hardware supply chains secure everything from PKI certificate management to software distribution and secure infrastructure. You’ll be part of a culture that values growth, collaboration, and engineering excellence. As a Senior Cloud Network Engineer on the Trust and Security Services (TSS) High Security Environments team, you’ll design, automate, deploy, and manage secure network infrastructure for mission-critical services. You’ll work on enterprise-scale systems in highly secure data centers, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to build and maintain the backbone of Microsoft’s most sensitive operations. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, gain deep expertise in secure cloud infrastructure, and collaborate closely with industry experts to solve complex problems.

This role is located in Phoenix, Arizona. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must ​relocate and work on-site 100%.

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.

• Lead the design, network/code, and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release.
• Influence telemetry analytics designs to better identify patterns that reveal errors.
• Troubleshoot and repair complex live site issues by applying expertise in physical network components.
• Develop new automated testing and validation procedures for network devices to drive solutions between internal teams and external vendors. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of data (i.e., know what data is needed, how to find new or missing data, and how to describe the impact of defects on customers).
• Contribute to the development of the knowledge base for data center or network site technicians on how to repair and replace existing network hardware. 
• Automate defined processes to eliminate human error and increase availability and standards.
• Define secure connectivity paths between Azure and Secure DCs to enable hybrid services.
• Consult with service owners to help them create secure, easy to troubleshoot, and highly available services on top of our network
• Support our Enterprise Storage solutions
• Partner with Network, Security, and Storage peers to design highly secure and available private cloud solutions.
  

• Embody our culture and values

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. 
• Experience with design for global availability (GTM, DNS, Anycast, IP Management)
• Effective understanding of network and computer security compliance standards and protocols

Other Requirements:

• 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.

• Experience with designing and implementing network architectures that include hybrid Cloud/on-prem deployments.
• Experience in developing Infrastructure as Code solutions, particularly Ansible. 
• IP networking fundamentals and experience in the application of IP/Routing protocols (i.e., BGP, OSPF, MPLS, TCP/UDP, IPSEC/MACSec, HTTP/HTTPS).
• Comprehensive troubleshooting skills across the OSI layer (Switching, Routing, and application/layer 7 Firewalls).
• Experience with designing and implementing application load balancing (LTM/HLB).
• Experience in enterprise automation using PowerShell, Perl, Python, YAML/Ansible, C# or equivalent.
• Experience working with Enterprise NAS or SAN solutions 
• Experience with large Datacenter deployments.
• Ability to work as a team player including mentoring and sharing of knowledge. 
• Ability to take projects from beginning to end with little direct supervision.
• Ability to work effectively across teams to drive business and technology decisions.
• Effective communication and writing skills.
  

Cloud Network Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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