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Hardware Engineering

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In short

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is looking for a passionate Hardware Engineer to join the Datacenter Engineering (DCE) team. This role is responsible for designing and delivering core datacenter infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams from site selection to handover, and driving innovation and quality across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

  • Gathers information and participates in design decisions based on complexity, financial impact, quality, reliability, and time duration.
  • Reviews design documentation which may include drawings, specifications, or diagrams for products or features with some general guidance and feedback from other engineers.
  • Drives the design of all aspects of the physical networking infrastructure effectively and efficiently and address any design-related issues that arise during construction for all Microsoft datacenters/co-location facilities.
  • Works with Datacenter Operations and partner on standards, requirements, and materials as specified.
  • Leads design workgroups and drives cross-functional meetings for multiple, concurrent capital projects.
  • Manages issues, decisions and risks, drives initiatives to improve the efficiency and quality to scale.
  • Acts as a critical thinker, develops statements of work and design documents, then reviews and critically evaluates bids and options for projects.
  • Evaluates operational impacts, deployment, and implementation challenges associated with design implementation for Microsoft Owned facilities and Lease sites.
  • Acts as technical lead on architecture requirements and master planning impacts for special, non-conforming projects, retrofits, refreshes, and other duties as assigned.
  • Works closely with the project team to provide design review and guidance, technical leadership, and coordinated design direction for architectural, structural, and civil elements for data center design, permitting, construction and site selection, due diligence, and master planning.
  • Works across multiple projects and collaborates with key stakeholders, authorities having jurisdiction as well as external architect/engineering consultants and contractors to ensure that Microsoft’s data center technical design standards and quality are met.
  • Provides architectural technical reviews and oversight for new data center designs, builds, leases, and renovations in addition to civil and structural technical support for site selection, due diligence, master planning and permitting.
  • Provides data center architectural designs and reviews (Specifications, Drawings, and Schedules) within CAD and/or Revit drawings and/or direction to architect/engineering firms for outside design work.
  • Collaborates with Global Technical Governance team, Global Strategy teams and Data Collection Engineering Operations Team to utilize Base of Design documentation to create and/or oversee the creation of the datacenter designs from basis of design to issue for constructions and through the Construction Administration phase of datacenter until handover for new data center project build-outs, leases, special projects and/or network upgrades.
  • Be highly organized and able to oversee multiple projects while providing structured thinking, logic, and analytics.
  • Hold a customer service focus with the ability to communicate with highly technical management teams.
  • Provides both remote site support for construction teams, as well as in person or virtual site visits to review all stages of the constructions projects as well as to ensure quality is being maintained throughout.
  • Hold large scale data center design experience, working knowledge of architecture design standards, experience site selection and due diligence and master planning for data centers, and design and peer review experience.

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in Architecture or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Architecture or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Desired Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Architecture, or related field OR Master's Degree in Architecture, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Registered Architect with Mission critical Data Center Design experience and working knowledge of Data Center Architecture and design principles.

Benefits

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • 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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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

1 month ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

Remote

Experience Level

Mid-Senior

Locations

United States

Qualification

Master, Bachelor

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