More than ever before, cloud services are transforming the way the world does business. As you’ve probably heard, Microsoft is committed to being cloud – first, and with several multi-billion dollar services already serving the needs of individuals and organizations well over the globe, the opportunity to shape the future has never been greater!
M365 is key to Microsoft’s cloud strategy and M365 Substrate Networking team is responsible for designing, building, and operating a highly reliable network infrastructure our clients rely on every day, transforming a pile of M365 services into a connected cloud with good performance. We are running Substrate cloud at scale but the best yet to come as we continue growing at a rapid pace.

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a fearless and innovative technical leader who’s passionate about delivering value to customers in mission critical environments, enjoy a growth culture, and are eager to play one of the most important long games for Microsoft.
The team today is energetic, eager to learn and willing to try new ways of working. The leader will be expected to lead the team in delivering great results continually with high quality. You and your team will be responsible for a large diversity of technologies and challenges, including traffic management, device management and automation, anomaly detection, monitoring and auto-recoveries, customer connectivity optimization, networking cost reduction, and many other challenging problems.

Qualifications

• BS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent degree
• Excellent communication skills and cross group collaboration
• 6+ years of software engineering experience or networking engineering experience
• Proven track record as a strong and effective engineering leader -managing and growing successful teams
• Proven ability to establish trusted, effective relationships across diverse sets of stakeholders
• Strong customer focusand passion for doing the right thing for the customer
• Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques and strong problem solving
• Knowledge of networking (including networking protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP, ANYCAST) is a plus.
• Knowledge of traffic management is a plus
• Knowledge of networking device is a plus

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. 

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