Overview

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for an experienced network engineer to join the our Sovereign Cloud Program, working to build out and support networking infrastructure in Microsoft’s National Partner Clouds (NPCs).

NPCs are specialised cloud environments that are designed to comply with the data laws of specific countries and regions.  You would be part of the team responsible for

• enabling secure cross-domain data transfer between the Azure public cloud and the NPCs
• enabling secure operational access to the NPCs for the local operations team
• NPC operations infrastructure – including WAN and LAN connectivity
  These capabilities enable secure data transfer between platforms, and have critical and demanding security, sovereignty, monitoring and control requirements. Coupled with the challenges of supporting complex environments across disparate security domains, these roles create exciting complex engineering and service support challenges you can solve with us!

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Responsibilities

• You’ll be a critical member of the team responsible for designing, implementing and supporting networking capabilities within high-assurance, secure and highly-available environments.  Your role as a senior network engineer will mean you are responsible for the outcomes the team delivers as well as ensuring other team members grow and learn to deliver better outcomes themselves.
• You’ll be responsible for championing, implementing and refining DevOps practices in order to improve operational efficiency while ensuring other requirements, such as security, are not compromised.
• You’ll lead design, network/code and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to release by applying expertise in network implementation, available technologies, analysis of telemetry pipelines, and root cause analysis, as well as best practices in identifying and implementing solutions.
• You’ll understand the capabilities and limitations of existing tools and resources, and the customer impact of design trade-offs and exceptions, to drive and optimise team decision making.
• You’ll actively drive 24/7/365 support, which means participating in rotating on-call duties. Your responsiveness and problem-solving skills will be crucial.
• Collaboration across the global organization is essential. You’ll be a contact point between teams, driving cross-team information sharing and process reuse in order to enhance efficiency and consistency.
• Working closely with security teams, you’ll ensure adherence to security standards. This involves integrating security practices into all aspects of your work. By maintaining a strong security posture, you’ll protect critical assets.
• You should expect to need to travel to the in-country Sovereign Operations Centres on a regular basis. This physical presence is vital for effective coordination, monitoring, and collaboration within the centre.  Exact frequency to be agreed,  but needs to be frequent enough to build strong relationships with the partner teams there.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent and at least 5 years of hands-on experience in designing and providing operational support to complex networking environments.
• Strong knowledge and experience deploying/configuring and maintaining Network environments (both in physical platforms and Azure) including: L2/L3 Routing (BGP) & Switching, Firewalls (NAT & ACLs), IPSEC VPN.
• Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or any other equivalent Cloud Certification
• Proficiency in English (spoken and written) is essential for internal collaboration and reporting.
  Preferred:
• Deep experience in system and service administration of complex platforms.
• A passion for innovation in complex and constrained environments, to deliver advanced and progressive customer experiences.
• Understanding of the challenges of system and service management in high security domains.
• Systems shell scripting experience (Bash, PowerShell, Python) and Dev Ops suites such as Ansible or equivalent.
• Experience working in broad domains including security, software, networking and service design.
• Extensive experience of service support, with on-call responsibilities.
• Expertise experience in problem solving and analysing distributed systems and critical production service environments.
• DevOps experience, including continuous configuration automation.
• Azure deployment knowledge including Bicep and Arm templates.

Security Clearance Requirements:

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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.
• Customer or government screening requirements as needed over time.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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