Senior Cloud Network Engineer

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Does pioneering new and innovative ways to reimagine and transform end-user productivity across the breadth and depth of Microsoft’s global workforce sound exciting to you? Are you passionate about the future of work, driving innovation and showcasing an employee experience blueprint that inspires customers and partners to navigate their digital transformation? If so, Microsoft Digital (MSD) team is an excellent place for you to grow your career.

Microsoft Digital (MSD)’s mission is to power, protect, and transform the employee experience at Microsoft around the world. Come build community, explore your passions, do your best work and be a part of the team within Microsoft’s Data Platform & Growth (DPG) organization and Experiences & Devices (E+D) division. Microsoft Digital (MSD), is the team that innovates, creates, and delivers the vision for Microsoft’s employee experience, human resources, corporate and legal affairs, global real estate products, and runs Microsoft’s internal network and infrastructure, plus builds campus modernization and hybrid solutions. You will leverage the latest technologies and focus on empowering Microsoft employees with the tools and services that define both the physical and digital future of work.

Microsoft Digital delivers the services, applications, and websites that every Microsoft employee uses in some part of their work – benefits, expenses, time & absence reporting, to name a few… as well as services that power business processes across Microsoft. We are the first to use our own technology at enterprise scale. Our early adopter experiences, as well as best practices, offer an inside view of Microsoft, which helps inform our customers how to make our technology work for them.

Within Microsoft Digital, Infrastructure & Engineering Services is the team that engineers, deploys and manages the internal Microsoft network infrastructure. We deliver industry leading transport and wired networking solutions that address Microsoft business needs at a global scale. As a Senior Cloud Network Engineer, you are responsible for the design, deployment, and operations of network devices (WAN/LAN) including all the connected. The focus of this position is to design and deploy infrastructure solutions that provide the underpinning for client and server connectivity within the Microsoft network. This job includes interaction with multiple teams including product teams, infrastructure and security teams, and service/project management teams. Engineers are expected to adapt in a dynamic environment, work with tight timelines for project deployments, and work collaboratively with teammates.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND 7+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
• 3+ years’ experience in cloud computing, networking, and security technologies, such as Azure, Palo Alto Firewalls, Azure Firewall, Virtual WAN, Load balancers, VPN, IDS/IPS, DNS, DHCP
• 2+ years’ experience working with Layer 2 protocols, Layer 3 networking with IP, as well as routing protocols such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
• 3+ years’ experience troubleshooting across a variety of networking platforms including, but not limited to, Cisco, Juniper, and Arista.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and services, such as Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.
• Skills in programming, scripting, and automation, such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Ability to analyze, troubleshoot, and solve complex security problems.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.

Location: We are hiring in the following locations: Hyderabad, India.

• Network Design and Implementation

  • Perform technical analysis and lead the design architecture of network plans for the enterprise, analyzing network & security requirements of the business and architects’ solutions that include available and resilient designs.
  • Install, upgrade, and maintain network or security hardware and operating system and software as needed, leveraging automation with experience in network hardware from Cisco, Arista, and Palo Alto Firewalls.
  • Influence and drive ongoing design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems.
  • Collaborate with internal business units and stakeholders to educate on existing capabilities and translate customer needs into requirements to deliver new/updated capabilities efficiently.
  • Evangelize the best network engineering practices and processes within and across teams.
  • Improve transparency and monitorability of services.
  • Automate repetitive tasks to reduce implementation time and avoid failure due to human error.
  • Required to be hands-on, bring innovative approaches that continuously improve our ability to deliver faster, better, and inexpensive solutions while reducing the time and cost to build solutions and on-board with the highest quality.
  • Drive the design creation for next generation network, execute proof of concept and pilot for new network design, Work with different tooling teams to codify new network design for operation readiness.
  • Create a migration strategy to ensure smooth transition from current design to next generation design.

  Maintaining and Operating Networks

  • Participate in on-call DRI rotation to support Network Infrastructure services and to troubleshoot and resolve production issues which serves as a feedback loop to improve design.
  • Oversee complex infrastructure network or security projects, including design, deployment, and monitoring, and perform complex incident management and problem resolution for network and security systems.
  • Handle Layer 3 technologies, including IPv4, BGP, IPv6, HSRP, and VRRP. Apply strong technical knowledge of enterprise networking solutions for very large environments, at scale (e.g., MPLS/BGP, routing, switching, SDN, VXLAN), and have knowledge of SD-WAN technologies.
  • Monitor state of network using tools such as SNMP, Sflow/Netflow, and Streaming Telemetry, in compliance with current capacity plan guidelines and compliance.