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Azure is the fastest growing business 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

• Contribute to the project from design to implementation.

• Collaborate with internal business units and stakeholders and understand the requirements for delivering 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.

• Monitor network telemetry and perform basic analyses to triangulate failures, with guidance from other engineers. You make suggestions on possible improvements to monitoring based on observations. You also assist with the design processes or technology solutions that resolve issues.

• Contribute to testing and validation of network devices. You work within a team of engineers to manage network deployments, and provide instructions to data center or network site staff/technicians on how to repair, replace, and maintain physical network hardware and components deployed in production.

• Lastly, proactively seek mentorship, feedback, and coaching from others to improve your skills and knowledge.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical discipline with proven 1+ experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:

• 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 Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ year of experience in

• deploying/Operating DCI and Long-haul Optical networks in heterogenous environment

• AND understanding and authoring machine readable formats like XML, JSON,

• AND one or more programming languages: C++, Java, Python, Perl'.

• Knowledge in

• signal propagation and impairments in Optical fiber and various fiber types, transceiver hardware used at Client and Line end of transmission equipment,

• DWDM and various modulation techniques used for transporting high speed client demands such as 100GE,400GE and beyond on Coherent and PAM4,

• 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,

• of L2 and L3 protocols such as Ethernet, IP, MPLS, RSVP, LACP, Etc.

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