Senior Hardware Engineer

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. 

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. We then manage the fleet to deliver the best possible performance while ensuring security and reliability. To achieve this goal, the Hardware Fleet Management (HFM) team is instrumental in helping ensure that the fleet delivers on the business needs related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineer with a strong passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.  

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join the team. 

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent in a relevant field of study required, Masters degree or equivalent desired
• 5 + years of experience with server-level and rack-level server designs
• Experience with remote debugging of server and storage systems.
• 3 + year hands on server and networking debug of system-level systemic issues.
• Knowledgeable in data analysis tools.
• In depth experience with Server Architecture, CPU, Memory and PCIE/peripheral devices.
• Passion for server-related problem solving in a high-volume data center environment.
• Track record of successful collaboration with datacenter networking and engineering staff.
• Individual effectiveness skills such as discipline, time management, decision making, planning and organizing work, summarizing results through technical reports

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Azure DevOps, MS Office are highly desired.
• Experience in Scripting (Pearl/Powershell/Python etc.)
• SW Development skills (Repository Manifest / Code Review / WPF C# / MFC)
• Experience working in a team-oriented engineering environment.
• Demonstrated ability to plan work, and work to a plan across multiple organizations, adapting as necessary in a rapidly-evolving environment.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively and persuasively communicate issue status, implications, and progress to audiences of varying technical and business levels.

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.

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.

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

• Triage and drive to analysis of potential faulting systems through resolution. Remotely or on site at datacenter facility if required.
• Ability to debug to component level on cloud server hardware.
• Work with Microsoft internal teams to support diagnostic and deployment tools development and ongoing system improvement.
• Focus on continuous improvement to optimize processes, procedures, and execution.
• Interface and interact with servers and infrastructure through the management network to root cause server fleet issues to minimize server downtime.
• The HW Triage team provides 24 x7 coverage on a Rota basis out of 3 global locations.