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You will seek to create highly reliable and resilient designs and seek to learn and grow at the forefront of one of the hottest spaces in the tech industry for the foreseeable future. You will interface with customers, industry vendors, 3rd party providers and fellow Microsoft colleagues daily producing world-class designs to manage Pbps level of traffic. This opportunity will allow you to build your skill set with real scale out networks, develop a bigger and wider network in the industry and satisfy some of the most demanding customer needs.\nMicrosoft’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.\nResponsibilities\nYou drive deep and complex partnerships with 3rd parties to satisfy seamless integrations of various network stacks and topologies to interface cleanly with Azure’s planetary-scale networks through well understood and well documented designs.\nTriages, troubleshoots, repairs, and root causes service impact issues by applying learnings and insights in physical network components and features (e.g., device operating systems). Triages, troubleshoots, and repairs, and root causes management tools/processes (e.g., root cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems, repair items to prevent recurrence, change management). Triages, troubleshoots, and repairs, and root causes 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. Participates in on-call/DRI duties to resolve incidents in production and provides guidance to other engineers on triage, troubleshooting, and resolution processes.\nWorks in collaboration with teams across a single organization to develop reliable, secure, scalable, and high-performance, network designs. Independently produces design documents and implementation plans (e.g., migration).\nLeads 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. Articulates the customer impact of design trade-offs and exceptions, and identifies capabilities and limitations of existing tools and resources to ensure they can support design implementation and verification. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nDoctorate 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 automationOR 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\nOR equivalent experience.\n\nOther Requirements:\nAbility to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.\nThese 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.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nDoctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automationOR 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\nOR 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\nOR equivalent experience.\n\n1+ year(s) experience delivering network designs into production and experience with live site accountability for a network.\n1+ year(s) experience in a large scale network ecosystem where you have owned design and e2e standards for delivery.\n\nCloud 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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