Senior Cloud Network Engineering

The Azure Networking Team is growing and we’re looking for a creative results-driven engineer who can combine networking experience with software development fundamentals to help build the world’s best private backbone network and SDN platform.

• Offers modification and improvements to network technologies based on existing and emerging industry knowledge to contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of reliable, scalable, and high-performance networks.
• Works in collaboration with teams across a single organization to develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance, network designs; independently produces design documents and implementation plans.
• Partners with Engineering and Program Management teams to understand customer, business, and technical requirements to propose network designs or modifications to architecture;
• Participates in architecture reviews to ensure designs and modifications meet all functional, performance, scale, and compliance requirements.
• Influences telemetry analytics designs to better identify patterns that reveal errors and unexpected problems;
• Leverages an understanding of network architectures and infrastructure at scale to develop, measure, track, and improve the quality of telemetry pipelines that support automated monitoring and incident response.
• Develops process or technology solutions that proactively resolve issues with processes, physical network devices, and/or tooling.
• Makes optimal use of infrastructure and resources through simple designs and by leveraging automation, prioritizes the development of solutions to deliver high-quality, measurable improvements against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across teams.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
• Proven experience in TCP/IP BGP, MPLS.
• Experience working with Python/Go/Rust.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

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