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We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day. Microsoft Digital employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.\nWe have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!\nThe Microsoft Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES) organization is for those technology professionals who want to be strategic partners to the business and be the first place to create innovative solutions using Microsoft and industry leading products and services. 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Identity, Infrastructure, and Product Engineering teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions.\nInfluence engineering standards, architecture patterns, operational practices, and service design decisions across Microsoft Digital.\nTranslate business and customer requirements into scalable engineering solutions.\nEvangelize engineering excellence, operational rigor, and security best practices across teams.\n AI-Driven Engineering & Automation\nDrive adoption of AI-powered engineering practices to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and network lifecycle management.\nLeverage Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI services, and agentic automation frameworks to automate operational workflows and reduce manual effort.\nPartner with platform and engineering teams to identify opportunities for AI-driven observability, predictive analytics, root cause analysis, and network optimization.\nDevelop and operationalize intelligent automation solutions for network 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HSRP, VRRP, VXLAN, and SD-WAN.\nOperate and troubleshoot large-scale environments using Cisco, Palo Alto, Arista, and Azure networking technologies.\nMonitor network health using SNMP, NetFlow, sFlow, Streaming Telemetry, Azure Monitor, and related observability platforms.\nExecute proofs of concept, pilots, and operational readiness activities for new networking and security technologies.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\n5+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automationOR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation.\nOR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in network design, development, and automation.\n\n5+ years of technical experience in network design, 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