Piping Material Engineer

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for an experienced networking engineer to join the International Sovereign Platform Team (ISPT) working on mission critical and highly assured distributed systems. Specifically, you will help drive the creation and evolution of networks underpinning the sovereign clouds Microsoft delivers around the world and provide critical operational and support services.The ISPT is a growing international team within the Microsoft Azure Edge & Platform organization. We deliver specialized cloud environments, known as sovereign clouds, that are designed to comply with the data laws of specific countries and regions. You would be part of the networking team responsible for enabling secure cross-domain data transfer between the Azure public cloud and the sovereign clouds and the sovereign cloud operations infrastructure.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 usMicrosoft'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:You'll be a critical member of a geo-distributed team responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting networking capabilities within high-assurance, secure, and highly-available environments. Your role as a senior 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 optimize 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 Centers on a regular basis. This physical presence is vital for effective coordination, monitoring, and collaboration within the center. Exact frequency to be agreed, but needs to be frequent enough to build strong relationships with the customer teams there.Qualifications:Required:Bachelor's Degree or equivalent and multiple 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.Very good English skills and good communication skills in reading/writing of the French language.Desired: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 DevOps 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 analyzing distributed systems and critical production service environments.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.Other Requirements:This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports French government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.isptjobsMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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