Cloud Network Automation Engineer

The Azure Networking Team is growing and we’re looking for a creative and hard-working engineer who can combine networking experience with software development fundamentals to help build the world’s best private backbone network and SDN platform. We’re passionate about automating every facet of the network to converge on a self-growing, self-healing network. We want engineers that are equally passionate and can look at the problems with a customer’s perspective to create user experiences that truly enable and empower Technicians, Engineers and Planners.

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• Focusing on the Express Route and Global backbone Networks, and working closely with partner teams in Azure Networking, you’ll be a critical part designing and developing automation and large-scale services that drive our network to autonomy. This will include owning components from design through to deployment and operations. This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Microsoft Azure and offers a terrific opportunity for technical and career growth.
• 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. 
• Assists in gathering and processing information required to complete Bills of Materials (BoMs) and helps translate components of high-level designs for datacenters or network sites into low-level designs; collaborates with internal teams and external stakeholders to develop network infrastructure within existing datacenters or network sites 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.