Cloud Network Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Mar 23, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft'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. The Azure WAN (Wide Area Network) Team is growing and we're looking for a creative and detail oriented engineer who can combine networking experience with software development fundamentals. We seek engineers who share our passion and can approach problems from a customer's perspective, creating user experiences that genuinely enable and empower our partners.Focusing on the global backbone network and collaborating closely with partner teams in Azure Networking, you'll play a crucial role in designing, developing, and building networking and automation components for the Wide Area Network. You will oversee these components from the initial design phase through development and buildout. This high-visibility position, within a rapidly growing and heavily invested area of Microsoft Azure, presents an excellent opportunity for both technical and career advancement.
ResponsibilitiesApplies knowledge of network technologies to contribute to network design, implementation, and operation.Independently develops reliable, scalable, and high-performance designs for network components, and features; assists with producing and maintaining design documents and implementation plans.Develops network components (e.g., device, software, tools) based on customer, business, and technical requirements that have been defined in partnership with engineering and Program Management teams; ensures that designs meet all functional, performance, scale, and compliance requirements with minimal guidance.Actively participates in design and network or code reviews to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release, define essential details related to network implementation (e.g., physical connectivity, power, protocols, telemetry), and shares best practices in implementing and qualifying designs based on relevant past experience.Demonstrates some knowledge of data - knows what data is needed, knows how to find new or missing data, and can describe defects and their relevance to product and service targets; identifies patterns and trends in data and interprets them to inform decisions related to products and/or services.Contributes to the design and implementation of automated tools and services to increase engineering efficiency, reduce operational burden, and reduce human errors in production; uses existing automation and makes suggestions for improvements to existing automation to increase efficiency and reduce errors based on learnings and experience.Proactively shares information across disciplines within their feature team in a timely manner with an appropriate level of detail that is tailored to their audience; proactively manages dependencies for their work with others. | |