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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.

We are looking for Network Engineers at all experience levels for Microsoft India development center in Hyderabad.

For more information about Azure Networking:

Inside Azure Networking with Mark Russinovich: Part 3 | Ignite 2020 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki6ywDX6Tj4)

Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge of network technologies to contribute to network design, implementation, and operation.

• Translates high-level designs for datacenters or network sites into low-level designs and collaborates with internal teams and external partners to facilitate the development, expansion, or modification of network infrastructure within existing datacenters or network sites.

• Triages, troubleshoots, and repairs live site issues by applying an understanding of network, its components and features as well as problem management tools (e.g., root cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems), to discover and drive solutions with minimal or no disruption to customers; participates in on-call/DRI duties to troubleshoot incidents in production.

• Collaborates with teams across the organization to support and manage network deployments; works with machine-readable definitions to manage deployments.

• Analyzes capacity issues across basic transfer protocols and identifies network components that may need to be modified or replaced; provides recommended changes to hardware and/or network components to internal teams working with external partners and suppliers to improve capacity.

• In addition, you participate in postmortem and root-cause analysis processes to continuously improve network reliability. You support innovation and cost management by developing new ideas for systems and tools that meet customer and/or business needs.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ 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 1+ year(s) technical experience in network design, development, and automation.

• 4-5+ years of experience in the networking Industry or large-scale data center network.

• Experience working with L2/L3 switching platforms, application networking and network protocols like BGP, OSPF, VRRP, LACP.

• Experience working in large scale data center/cloud environment with an understanding of passive components (UTP Cabling, Optical cabling)

• Experience in one or more programming languages: C++, Java, Python, Perl.

• Experience in understanding and authoring machine readable formats like XML, JSON.

• Excellent communication skills and team player with ability to build solid relationships at all levels, across teams, geographies, and business functions.

• Excellent judgment, decision-making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure when the situation is ambiguous.

• Strong negotiation skills and conflict management skills.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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 5+ 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 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation

• OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,

• OR related field.

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