Cloud Network Engineer II

Quick Facts

• Role: Cloud Network Engineer II

• Focus: Designing and operating Azure network fabrics for large-scale, scale-out networks and AI workloads

Description

As a Cloud Network Engineer II, you will design and operate highly reliable network fabrics for traditional Ethernet and back-end networks in Azure, including RDMA and InfiniBand. You will collaborate to deliver resilient designs, support safe and secure deployments, and strengthen incident handling through troubleshooting, documentation, and root cause analysis. You will also build automation tools, monitor telemetry and capacity, and translate high-level network designs into testing and implementation plans.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data to identify missing information, defects, patterns, and trends to support product and service decisions

• Collaborate across teams to support safe, secure network deployments using machine-readable definitions and established deployment processes

• Support incident management and live-site troubleshooting: diagnose and triage network issues, document incidents, participate in root cause analyses and postmortems, and support on-call responsibilities

• Develop and improve automation tools and services to increase engineering efficiency, enhance security, reduce operational burden, and minimize human error

• Guide datacenter and network-site technicians on securely installing, repairing, replacing, and maintaining physical network hardware; identify and address process gaps

• Monitor and analyze network telemetry and capacity to identify errors, unexpected behavior, performance trends, and components needing modification or replacement

• Design and implement improvements to network processes, architecture, resources, and tooling to meet quality objectives and KPIs

• Perform network design, testing, validation, and implementation: test devices, firmware, and configurations; define test cases; identify coverage gaps; participate in design and code reviews; develop Bills of Materials (BoMs); translate high-level designs into low-level designs; develop network components based on business and technical requirements

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in network design, development, and automation

• OR Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ year(s) technical experience in network design, development, and automation

• OR equivalent experience

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

• Preferred: Doctorate degree OR Master’s with 3+ years OR Bachelor’s with 5+ years in network design, development, and automation

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: typical U.S. base pay range USD $102,100–$202,200/year (with different ranges for specific work locations)

• Potential eligibility for benefits and other compensation

• Work on world-class network designs capable of managing petabits per second (Pbps) levels of traffic