Senior Cloud Network Engineer

The Azure WAN (Wide Area Network) Team is growing and we’re looking for a creative and detail-oriented engineer who can combine networking experience with software development fundamentals. We seek engineers who share our passion and can approach problems from a customer’s perspective, creating user experiences that genuinely enable and empower our partners.

Focusing on the global backbone network and collaborating closely with partner teams in Azure Networking, you’ll play a crucial role in designing, developing, and building networking and automation components for the Wide Area Network. You will contribute to the end-to-end lifecycle of automation components — from initial test design and development through deployment and operational integration within lab and production environments. This high-visibility position, within a rapidly growing and heavily invested area of Microsoft Azure, presents an excellent opportunity for both technical and career advancement.

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to join the team!

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• Develops and maintains automated test frameworks using Python and Ansible to validate network features, protocols, and platform stability; implements OS upgrade automation integrated with Jenkins-based Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines to streamline validation, reduce manual effort, and ensure consistency across multi-vendor environments (e.g., Cisco, Juniper, Arista).
• Collaborates with engineering and programming teams to define and implement onboarding and validation processes for network operating systems; ensures thorough testing and integration aligned with customer use cases, technical requirements, and architectural standards.
• Leads design, network/code and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release by applying expertise in network implementation, available technologies, analysis of telemetry pipelines, and root cause analysis.
• Triages, troubleshoots, and repairs complex live site issues by applying expertise in physical network components and features (e.g., device operating systems), problem management tools (e.g., root cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems, repair items), and/or low-level Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
• Demonstrates knowledge of data — knows what data is needed, how to find new or missing data and how to describe the impact of defects on customers or the impact of operations-focused scenarios on networks or infrastructure, as well as the relevance to product and service targets; identifies patterns and trends in data and interprets them to inform decisions related to improving and optimizing products and/or services.
• Collaborates within and across teams by proactively sharing information with an appropriate level of detail for their audience; overcomes obstacles by resolving conflicts and issues across interdependent teams and engages partners and stakeholders so issues can be resolved, and mutual objectives are met.

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