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Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.
The Azure WAN (Wide Area Network) Team is growing and we’re looking for a creative and detail oriented Cloud Network 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.
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.
Please note this application is only for roles based in our Redmond, Washington office. For roles in other offices in the United States, please see our Careers site (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/students) .
Relocation assistance is not available for this role.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications:
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 9th, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.
The Azure WAN (Wide Area Network) Team is growing and we’re looking for a creative and detail oriented Cloud Network 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.
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.
Please note this application is only for roles based in our Redmond, Washington office. For roles in other offices in the United States, please see our Careers site (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/students) .
Relocation assistance is not available for this role.
Responsibilities
- Develops knowledge of network technologies to draw insights that aid in network design, implementation, and operation.
- Assists in the design of reliable, scalable, and high-performance network features or components with guidance from other engineers.
- Develops an understanding of quality assurance and network or code review processes by assisting in identifying risks and classes of bugs and becoming familiar with essential details related to network implementation (e.g., physical connectivity, power, protocols, telemetry) and design qualification with guidance from other engineers.
- Contributes to the development or modification of network automation tools with guidance from other engineers to make efficient use of infrastructure and resources by automating performance of various tasks related to network operations, testing, and incident management.
- Works within a team of engineers to manage network deployments; works with a machine-readable definition of the network deployment.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
- OR 2 years technical experience in network design, development, and automation .
- 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.
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, 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.
- OR 5 years technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
- Network engineering experience in a cloud provider, internet service provider or large enterprise environment.
- Experience with routing protocols such as BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) , ISIS (Intermediate System to Intermediate System) and Segment Routing.
- Professional software development experience in the networking domain, including Python, YAML or C#.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 9th, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
Salary : $81,900 - $160,200
