Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • 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
  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND Extensive years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in networking, scripting, and software development
• Familiarity/hands on experience with any network device operating systems (Sonic, Arista, Cisco, Juniper)
• Cisco CCNA (or equivalent) and experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and Windows servers
• Experience with writing automation in languages such as Python, Powershell or C#
• Experience with writing scripts that use REST APIs, Syslog, xml, SNMP, and other Network Management Systems
• Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals along with a basic understanding of IP networking MPLS, BGP, ISIS, OSPF and Anycast routing
• Experience managing and troubleshooting network issues
• Experience working on large scale networks
• Leadership, coordination and teamwork skills
• Ability to work independently on complex tasks
• Motivated to drive leading edge technologies
• Understanding of TCP/IP, BGP and AnyCast

What You'll Be Doing:

• Harnessing Physical network data for precise failure analysis and proactive monitoring enhancements to improve network availability.
• Diagnosing and resolving network issues with minimal customer impact, backed by meticulous post-incident analysis as part of on-call responsibilities.
• Pioneering automated solutions to optimize network operations and incident management workflows.
• Work across SDN teams to identify tooling gaps, document failures, propose solutions and work across multiple engineering teams to get both short-term fixes and architectural improvements rolled out.
• Working with internal and external vendor engineers to troubleshoot issues found during Network health validation and field operations and drive for resolution.

Perks and Benefits:

• Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.