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[Remote] Senior Cloud Network Engineer

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is a technology company developing Azure cloud services and infrastructure for workloads ranging from general-purpose storage to large-scale artificial intelligence training. The Senior Cloud Network Engineer will design reliable network fabrics, including Ethernet, RDMA, and Infiniband networks, integrate network stacks with Azure, troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call duties, and lead network, code, testing, and security reviews.

Responsibilities

  • You drive deep and complex partnerships with 3rd parties to satisfy seamless integrations of various network stacks and topologies to interface cleanly with Azure’s planetary-scale networks through well understood and well documented designs
  • Triages, troubleshoots, repairs, and root causes service impact issues by applying learnings and insights in physical network components and features (e.g., device operating systems). Triages, troubleshoots, and repairs, and root causes management tools/processes (e.g., root cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems, repair items to prevent recurrence, change management). Triages, troubleshoots, and repairs, and root causes low-level Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and register sets, to diagnose and address problems using automated, long-term, secure, and sustainable solutions with minimal or no disruption to customers
  • Participates in on-call/DRI duties to resolve incidents in production and provides guidance to other engineers on triage, troubleshooting, and resolution processes
  • Works in collaboration with teams across a single organization to develop reliable, secure, scalable, and high-performance, network designs. Independently produces design documents and implementation plans (e.g., migration)
  • Leads design, network/code, test plan, and security reviews across teams in the same organization to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release by applying learnings or insights from previous network implementation, currently available technologies, analysis of telemetry pipelines, and root cause analysis, as well as best practices in identifying and implementing solutions
  • Articulates the customer impact of design trade-offs and exceptions, and identifies capabilities and limitations of existing tools and resources to ensure they can support design implementation and verification

Skills

  • Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation + OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation + OR equivalent experience
  • Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation + OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation + OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR equivalent experience
  • 1+ year(s) experience delivering network designs into production and experience with live site accountability for a network

Company Overview

  • Microsoft provides computer software, consumer electronics, cloud computing platforms, and digital enterprise systems. It was founded in 1975, and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.microsoft.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2855 in 2026, 9192 in 2025, 9343 in 2024, 7677 in 2023, 11403 in 2022, 7210 in 2021, 7852 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.