Senior Cloud Network 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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• Offers modification and improvements to network technologies based on existing and emerging industry knowledge to contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of reliable, scalable, and high-performance networks. 
• Works in collaboration with teams across a single organization to develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance, network designs; independently produces design documents and implementation plans. 
• Partners with engineering and Program Management teams to understand customer, business, and technical requirements to propose network designs or modifications to architecture; participates in architecture reviews to ensure designs and modifications meet all functional, performance, scale, and compliance requirements.
• Influences telemetry analytics designs to better identify patterns that reveal errors and unexpected problems; leverages an understanding of network architectures and infrastructure at scale to develop, measure, track, and improve the quality of telemetry pipelines that support automated monitoring and incident response. 
• Develops process or technology solutions that  proactively resolve issues with processes, physical network devices, and/or tooling, and makes optimal use of infrastructure and resources through simple designs and by leveraging automation; prioritizes the development of solutions to deliver high-quality, measurable improvements against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across teams.