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Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Storage Fleet Strategy and Capacity Management

Washington, United States (On-site)

Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Storage Fleet Strategy and Capacity Management

1 Day ago • 6 Years + • DevOps • Operations • $137,600 PA - $294,000 PA

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Job Description

The Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Azure Storage will lead the Azure Storage Fleet Strategy and Capacity management team. This role requires defining strategies, driving optimizations, and ensuring operational excellence in storage fleet management. Responsibilities include understanding customer needs, identifying capacity efficiency trends, and steering capacity strategy to meet quality, availability, and profitability goals. The successful candidate will manage a team, drive cross-functional initiatives to reduce inefficiencies, recommend investments to improve capacity utilization, and deliver infrastructure capabilities for best-in-class customer experiences.

Must have:

6+ years in technical program management/business planning
4+ years people management experience
3+ years managing cross-functional projects
Technical background in storage technologies
Cloud storage solutions expertise
Cost planning and pricing strategies experience

Good to have:

Experience managing teams of product/program managers
Fleet management, capacity planning, customer experience at cloud scale

Perks:

Industry-leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Networking opportunities

Overview

Are you passionate about cloud computing, large scale distributed systems and being on the forefront of driving innovations at massive scale?

The Microsoft Azure Storage Platform team is responsible for defining, building, and deploying the foundational platforms and setting strategy, managing, and optimizing the fleet hosting Azure Storage services. We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to join our team to lead the Azure Storage Fleet Strategy and Capacity management team. This is a unique and highly visible management role with large scope to create strategies and drive optimizations for delivering operational excellence in storage fleet management for best-in-class first party and third party customer experiences. You will be responsible for understanding customer requirements, identifying trends impacting storage fleet capacity efficiencies, steering the capacity strategy and operations to deliver end to end seamless customer capacity experiences while meeting fleet quality, availability and business profitability goals.

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years of experience in technical program management/business planning/capacity planning OR operations strategy and/or planning.
- OR equivalent experience.
4+ years people management experience.
3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates should feel comfortable operating with large amounts of reasonability and autonomy.
Experience managing teams of product managers/program managers.
Experience in fleet management, capacity management and planning, customer experience at cloud scale.
Technical background in storage technologies.
Knowledge of cloud storage solutions and experience in cloud storage.
Experience in cost planning, setting cost and pricing strategies.

Technical Program Management M5 - 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 June 13, 2024.

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Responsibilities

You will be responsible for managing a team of high caliber program managers and technical program managers to deliver subject matter expertise for Azure Storage end-to-end Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS) strategy and profitability roadmap.
Drive execution and operationalize cross Azure Storage initiatives with focus on reducing Storage fleet inefficiencies and improving seamless capacity availability.
Identify, recommend new investments with focus on overall fleet COGS reductions to drive profitability via improvements in capacity utilization and performance allocations, fleet management optimization.
Deliver the infrastructure capabilities (demand, capacity utilization, migrations, ...) required to enable operational excellence for best in class customer experiences.
Embody our and

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

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$137.6K - $294.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$215.8K/yr avg.