Senior Director, Hardware Infrastructure & Fundamentals Engineering

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission. 

The Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team enables cloud optimal solutions at scale, assuring engineering fundamentals throughout the platform lifecycle for customers to achieve more. We are seeking a candidate to help us transform and accelerate operational excellence. This key individual will be responsible for working with a Corporate Vice President’s leadership team on business operations.  Focus areas will include decision support, prioritization, managing the team’s Rhythm of the Business, and follow up on priority requests.  An optimal candidate will have skills in operations, planning, data analysis, financial management, communications, strategy, process development and program management. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive strategic execution and transformation in a rapidly growing business. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

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• You will provide on-site senior leadership overseeing a local team

• You will oversee a broad range of Hardware Infrastructure Fundamentals functions including manufacturing quality, new product introduction development, test, sustainability, reliability, and other functions 

• You will operate in a strong matrix environment, providing on-site leadership, coaching, and guidance to local managers whose work products often support global functions