Microsoft is looking for an experienced Senior Service Engineer to join the Azure Silver and Sovereign Team within the Cloud Transfer Service (CTS) team. This role will focus on enabling secure access and transfer between enclaves, supporting various transfer and access types for highly regulated industries. The engineer will help solve complex challenges in mission-critical distributed systems, data transmission across clouds, and isolated system engineering.
Requirements
- 3+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
- Experience configuring physical networking equipment such as Arista, Juniper, Cisco, and PaloAlto.
- Experience with host-based virtualization technologies such as Linux Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) or Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Proven experience in scripting languages such as Linux Bash, Windows PowerShell, and Python
- Experience working with common automation technologies such as Ansible
- Stays current in knowledge and expertise as technology landscape evolves specifically as that technology relates to Cloud networking, physical networking, automation, and Linux (Debian and Red Hat based distributions).
- Contributes to the adoption of new solutions.
Responsibilities
- Responds to incidents during regular on-call rotations by identifying the level of impact, troubleshooting issues, and deploying appropriate fixes to resolve root cause(s).
- Demonstrates understanding of service and/or system design, interactions between technology layers and components, functions of physical infrastructure (networking and servers) and cloud-based infrastructure, and dependencies at scale.
- Contributes to improving service architecture and design of a hybrid (physical and cloud-based) service through automation, software development, and networking with minimal guidance.
- Adjusts configurations and defines infrastructures to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance of supported products and services, with minimal guidance from other engineers.
- Monitors and acts on telemetry data and performs analyses to identify patterns that reveal errors and unexpected problems that are affecting the system's availability, reliability, performance, and/or efficiency, with minimal guidance.
- Develops scripting and/or automation used in monitoring based on observations and experience.
- Implements reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions including software development, scripting, networking, automation, and hybrid deployments across teams through owning implementation and maintaining quality with minimal guidance.
Other
- Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
- This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries.
- Self-motivated, collaborative, and a quick learner with a passion for solving complex problems.
