Principal Network Engineer - Network Operations

As a Principal Network Engineer specializing in Datacenter Networking, you will architect, design, maintain and operate the global datacenter networking platform. You will collaborate with internal and external teams, as well as industry partners, to ensure that customer and business requirements are met while upholding our Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This role provides an opportunity for you to leverage and expand your expertise in large-scale networking while driving the effort to enhance the resilience, performance and security of our networking solutions. This opportunity allows flexible hours and remote work.

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Required Qualifications:

• 9+ 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 6+ 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 4+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
• 3+ years of knowledge and understanding of network concepts. Proficient in BGP, MPLS VPN, Anycast routing, VLAN/Spanning Tree, TCP/IP, DNS(Domain Name Services), network security and virtualization core technologies based on hands-on experience.
• 3+ years of experience working with other teams and services to design and implement secure network architectures.
• 3+ years of experience deploying and troubleshooting key cloud network technologies (Express Route, Load balancer, Application load balancers, Firewall).

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of network operating systems including Juniper, Arista.
• Extensive hands-on experience with BGP and IS-IS routing protocols, IPv4 and IPv6 routing policy and MPLS traffic engineering.
• Experience managing routing policies for diverse and multiple providers, high-capacity IP transit, private peering and public exchange point interconnection.
• Knowledge of networking hardware including twisted pair and optical cabling, L2 switches and routers.

Cloud Network Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 22, 2025.

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