Azure is one of the fastest growing businesses 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 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 the most reliable cloud network in the world - Azure.We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services. For this position, the candidate should be familiar with network protocols, network devices including network interface cards, switches, and routers. You should feel comfortable working with large-scale distributed systems, in managing the network infrastructure that supports the Azure Cloud infrastructure as well as in designing and building the large-scale distributed systems that manage the network.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
- Collaborate with internal business units and stakeholders and understand the requirements to deliver efficiently.
- Automate repetitive tasks to reduce implementation time and avoid failure due to human error.
- Participate in periodic on-call rotation for network incident support, quickly mitigate impact and restore service availability through a software enabled toolset.
- Evangelize best network engineering practices and processes within and across teams.
- When issues arise, you troubleshoot live site issues to discover and drive solutions with minimal or no disruption to customers. You also perform testing and validation of network devices, and demonstrate some knowledge of data. You know what data is needed and how to find new or missing data. You provide instructions to the data center on how to repair and maintain physical network hardware, and take notes during incidents.
- In addition, you participate in postmortem and root-cause analysis processes to continuously improve network reliability.
- Proactively share information across disciplines within your feature team in a timely manner with an appropriate level of detail that is tailored to your audience.
- Provide feedback and some mentorship to other engineers, while also proactively seeking mentorship and feedback from others.
- Candidate shall be capable of handling projects from Design to Implementation and understand the Network standards along with strong automation skills. Candidate shall collaborate with Internal Business units and Stakeholders and understand the requirements to deliver efficiently
Qualifications
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation. OR
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
Required Skills & Experience
- 6 to 8 years of experience in the networking Industry or large-scale data center network.
- Experience in Deploying/Operating DCI and Long-haul Optical networks in heterogenous environment
- In depth understanding of signal propagation and impairments in Optical fiber and various fiber types, transceiver hardware used at Client and Line end of transmission equipment
- Knowledge of DWDM and various modulation techniques used for transporting high speed client demands such as 100GE,400GE and beyond on Coherent and PAM4
- Good understanding of Optical Control Plane, Optical feedback loops, Optical network health parameters (e.g. OSNR, BER, Q-factor etc), L0/L1 protection schemes used in Optical transport
- Basic and integration knowledge of L2 and L3 protocols such as Ethernet, IP, MPLS, RSVP, LACP, Etc.
- Implement modern telemetry and drive a standardized schema for event/alarms and pms in multi-vendor environment
- Collaborate across functional teams to identify opportunities and establish technical requirements for current and future Optical transport systems.
- Experience in one or more programming languages: C++, Java, Python, Perl.
- Experience in understanding and authoring machine-readable formats like XML, JSON.
- Excellent communication skills and team player with ability to build solid relationships at all levels, across teams, geographies, and business functions.
- Experience in solving broad business problems and analytical skills.
- Excellent judgment, decision-making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure when the situation is ambiguous.
- Automation mindset and hands on experience in developing network automation in any programming language
Optional Skills
- Awareness of incorporating AI tools to increase productivity
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