Cloud Network Engineer

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

As a part of the Identity and Network Access organization, the Trust and Security Services (TSS) team is responsible for foundational services to the Microsoft software and hardware supply chains, PKI certificate management, Code signing, scanning for malware, software distribution, and licensing. The TSS High Security Environments team (Network, Security+, and Storage) is continually designing, automating, and improving the security and availability of the highly secure environments hosting mission critical services.

We currently manage multiple purpose-built highly secure facilities and manage 1000’s of devices (Enterprise Scale). You will have the opportunity to be part of a multidiscipline team, with the ability to increase your breadth of knowledge from peers that are industry experts. If you are ready to provide technical leadership within a team that is always working to improve the customer experience of our services, we have the opportunity for you. We are looking for a strong Cloud Network Engineer to help design, automate, deploy, monitor, and operate our core network. You will be a key contributor/leader in bringing a new secure DCs to life from the ground up.

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, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• Experience with designing and implementing network architectures that include hybrid Cloud/on-prem deployments.
• Experience in developing Infrastructure as Code solutions, particularly Ansible.
• Strong IP networking fundamentals and experience in the application of IP/Routing protocols (i.e., BGP, OSPF, MPLS, TCP/UDP, IPSEC/MACSec, HTTP/HTTPS).
• Comprehensive troubleshooting skills across the OSI layer (Switching, Routing, and application/layer 7 Firewalls).
• Experience with designing and implementing application load balancing (LTM/HLB).
• Experience in enterprise automation using PowerShell, Perl, Python, YAML/Ansible, C# or equivalent.
• Ability to work as a team player including mentoring and sharing of knowledge.
• Experience with large Datacenter deployments.
• Ability to take projects from beginning to end with little direct supervision.
• Experience working with Enterprise NAS or SAN solutions
• Ability to work effectively across teams to drive business and technology decisions.
• Strong communication and writing skills.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Desire to learn new skills.

• Seasoned experience working as a Network Engineer.

• Experience working in a secure datacenter environment.

• Experience with design for global availability (GTM, DNS, Anycast, IP Management)

• Solid understanding of network and computer security compliance standards and protocols

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Partner with Network, Security+, and Storage peers to design highly secure and available private cloud solutions.
• Design simple processes for running the network infrastructure.
• Automate defined processes to eliminate human error and increase availability and standards.
• Define secure connectivity paths between Azure and Secure DCs to enable hybrid services.
• Consult with service owners to help them create secure, easy to troubleshoot, and highly available services on top of our network
• Support our Enterprise Storage solutions