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Microsoft Azure is the world’s foundry for innovation and excellence! Imagine being at the forefront of transformative cloud native technologies.

Application Gateway for Containers service is part of the Azure networking team responsible for designing, building and operating network connectivity, application load balancing and security services like ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Firewall, Bastion, Application Gateway Containers, Web Application Firewall, Virtual WAN and Virtual Network Functions platform.

Azure Application Gateway for Containers is changing the landscape of how customers manage, secure and scale their Kubernetes applications while ensuring trust and fast connectivity to their network. There is an exciting roadmap ahead to provide the best application delivery experience as well as the opportunity to shape the future of this service. The position will involve extensive internal and external collaborations with other Azure/Microsoft teams.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented engineers to design, build and operate this fast paced service at hyper-scale. If you are an experienced engineering lead with a track record of delivering high quality services, passion to build and grow people, and excitement to operate in a startup culture while delivering services with enterprise level maturity, this is a great opportunity for you to take the next step in your career (experienced individual contributors are encouraged to apply).

This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure and offers a terrific opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, and grow! We own entire services end-to-end from user facing interface to management plane and all the way down to data path implementation.

Our culture promotes diversity and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure and offers a terrific opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, and grow. We encourage you to apply to learn more! 

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

• Mentor and coach team of engineers for achieving goals with agility by providing technical leadership.

• Managers in Azure Networking as responsible for the service as they drive for execution and results and exhibit quality-oriented mindset.

• Lead the innovation around architecture, design, and coding by bringing in their expertise and out-of-box thinking. Manage project timelines and define vision of the product by working closely with product managers, leads and partners.

• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

• Seek new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

• Significant technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Golang, Rust, C++, C#, Java, or Python

• Significant experience in building, leading and growing team of engineers

• Significant technical experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, TLS/SSL, HTTP/HTTPS)

• Distributed Systems

• Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services

• RESTful Services

• Knowledge of cloud development

• Experience with Kubernetes and wider cloud native / Container ecosystem

• Experience with L4-L7 proxies (Nginx, Envoy, HAProxy)

• Contribution to open source software projects

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .