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Do you jump with excitement at the opportunity to identify trends and provide unique business solutions? Do you want to join a team where learning about a new technology or solution is part of our work every day?\nResponsibilities\nCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.\n\nDrives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.\n\nCreates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).\n\nLeverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.\n\nActs as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.\n\nProactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.\n\nQualifications\nBachelor and/or Graduate degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent\nExperience: 7+ years of professional development.\nTechnical Stack: C++, C#, big data, ML, NLP, and search technologies.\nFocus Areas: Strong analytical skills, customer engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.\nFamiliarity with Microsoft Cloud Services (Azure, Entra, O365).\nSecurity awareness (penetration testing, threat analysis).\nDrives proactive threat identification and threat modeling, builds scalable security detections, and engineer's end-to-end solutions to detect, mitigate, and prevent security risks across infrastructure and services.\nPreferred/Additional Qualifications\nYou should self-identify as a technical software engineer with a passion for cloud technologies and AI\nPrevious experience as a Software Developer Engineer\nTrack record of working closely with agile and diverse engineering teams\nUnderstanding of cloud, AI and other computing technologies, including business drivers and emerging trends across Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies\nExperience working in geographically dispersed teams\nExperience identifying attack vectors and security risks, developing scalable detections, and driving engineering solutions to mitigate and prevent threats.\nSelf-starter who likes tackling new challenges and working independently\nAbility to build relationships with senior technical and business leaders\nStrong verbal and written communication ability including fluency in English \n#CAPJobs #Agent365Jobs\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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