Senior Cloud Network Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Cloud Engineering · Network Administration · Software Engineering
In short
As a Senior Cloud Network Engineer for the Azure Dedicated Team, you will design and operate Network Fabrics for traditional ethernet and advanced back-end networks like RDMA and Infiniband, enabling the next generation of AI workloads on Azure. The role involves creating highly reliable and resilient designs, interfacing with customers and vendors, and managing large-scale traffic.
Responsibilities
- Drive deep and complex partnerships with 3rd parties for seamless integration of network stacks and topologies with Azure's planetary-scale networks through well-understood and 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.
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.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Desired Qualifications
- 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.
- 1+ year(s) experience in a large scale network ecosystem where you have owned design and e2e standards for delivery.
Benefits
- 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Skills
AzureRDMAInfinibandEthernetNetwork DesignNetwork Automation
#Cloud Network Engineering#AI#RDMA#Infiniband#Azure#Network Fabrics#Network Designs#Root Cause Analysis#On-call#Microsoft#Cloud Background Check
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Remote
Salary
US$119,800–234,700 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Doctoral, Master, Bachelor, No Formal Education
Applicants
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