Senior Storage Engineer

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware 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, Skype, 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.

We are looking for a Senior Storage Engineer to join a growing Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) team embedded within Microsoft’s Silicon design team.   Silicon development at Microsoft scale requires petabytes of storage spread across multiple clusters in multiple environments, both physical and cloud-based, serving a multitude of client types.  The Senior Storage Engineer  will hold primary responsibility for the data storage systems necessary for the silicon research and design process.  Come and be part of a team which collaborates with its engineering partners to fulfill a unified vision. 

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/Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering

o OR equivalent experience.

3+ Years of File Storage Systems Administration experience.

2+ Years of UNIX/Linux Systems Administration experience. 

2+ Years of system automation experience using some scripting language such as Shell, Perl, or Python.

Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

•  Understanding of networking, systems administration, automation, and monitoring.
• Understanding of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) concepts. 

Service Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

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Responsibilities:

• Manage day to day operations of the physical and cloud based storage systems for silicon data serving both Windows and UNIX clients.
• Drive creation and maintenance of data handling process & policy documentation.
• Drive automation of storage management and reporting including disaster recovery planning for storage systems in use.
• Forecast storage requirements, schedules, and resource plans.
• Manage the scope of work and deliverables provided by external staff.
• Research and evaluate differing storage solutions and weigh the applicability to engineering need, developing cost/benefit analysis to guide the decision process.

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