Azure is the fastest growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. Azure differentiates itself as the only hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud with a true hybrid story. Customers and analysts recognize Azure’s tremendous momentum which continues month over month. Microsoft Azure’s core priority is to be the world’s most trusted, secure, and global cloud and a great place for people to work.

We are part of the Azure Networking team responsible for designing, building, and operating critical foundational network services that help us differentiate from competitors and generate new revenue streams. Cloud buildout is a technically challenging area with a complex interplay of device commissioning and service deployments. With increasing demand for new Azure clouds, there is a requirement to design scalable, complex services and tools which can accelerate cloud buildouts and provide highly secure, role-based access control for operating the cloud.

In this role, you will work with a team of talented engineers to architect, design and implement distributed services, automation tools and frameworks for accelerating new cloud build out and operations. You will have the chance to learn and provide deep technical impact, product innovation, understand and leverage a wide variety of technologies ranging from internals of different networking devices to building highly resilient and scalable services.

If you are a engineer, passionate about cloud technologies, eager to work in a fast-paced startup environment, with good cross-team collaboration skills, then this is the position for you. You will be able to influence and collaborate with teams within and outside Microsoft, to build end-to-end scenarios and value-driven products for customers.

Microsoft’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.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of distributed software services, automation tools and frameworks for accelerating new cloud build out and operations.

• Evangelizing best engineering practices and processes within and across teams.You will also bring:

• Intense eagerness to learn, ready to dive deep into complex problems.

• Experience shipping products or services.

• Passion and drive for profound impact.

• Focus in delivering customer value.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, C/C++, or JAVA

• OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of experience

• in software development with solid design and coding skills

• AND in distributed systems and building cloud services.

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science,Engineering, or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, C/C++, or JAVA

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, C/C++, or JAVA

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience

• with creating and operating distributed services in Azure/AWS/GCP and/or competitive offerings – including packaging and deployment;

• AND in Microsoft .NET technologies (C# and .NET Framework) and/or competitive offerings,

• AND in inter-service communication including authentication (e.g., certificate), metadata file format (e.g., XML, JSON) and API development (e.g., REST, gRPC).

• Communication and collaboration skills with ability to develop partnerships.

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