Microsoft Azure organization offers a terrific opportunity for technical enrichment and career growth. As part of Microsoft Azure, the Azure Networking team designs and builds the network infrastructure that powers hundreds of thousands of servers in datacenters around the globe, providing core network infrastructure services for Azure, Bing, and other Microsoft cloud services. In Azure Networking, we are at the very front of Cloud Computing by running one of the largest data center networks in the world.

　　As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Networking, you will gain marketable experience in massive scale data center network architecture design, network infrastructure automatic management, software defined networking and high scalable/available/reliable distributed service design/implementation.

　　You would start working with existing service teams, IPAM (IP Address Management) or Metadata, which are based in China to collaborate with and gain deep domain knowledge. The IPAM and Metadata systems track every IP address and network port owned by Microsoft, and data-validation ensures correctness. All our network management tooling, from quality control to alerting to configuration management, is driven from an authoritative description of what our network should be and what types of routers/switches, how they are connected, and details such as what IP addresses and features are configured on them.

　　This work opportunity is fully working from home in the Australian east coast.

　　Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

　　Responsibilities

　　Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.

　　Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

　　Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

　　Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

　　Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

　　Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

　　To be able to identify root causes of network issues and system performance bottlenecks, propose simple and implementable technical solutions and actively reach out to customers to solve their pain points.

　　Qualifications

　　Required Qualifications:

　　Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

　　OR equivalent experience.

　　Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.

　　Other Requirements:

　　Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required 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.

　　Preferred Qualifications:

　　Knowledge about highly reliable distributed system, micro service, service fabric, Azure Devops, Redis, Bootstrap.

　　Be familiar with common network protocols, such as TCP, BGP, IP routing, IPv6 etc., experience on networking router configuration will be a plus.

　　Technical passion and terrific problem-solving skills to drive for result and impact.

　　Any experience with network security is an advantage.

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