Cloud Network Engineer 2 Post by Microsoft

Job Description

Date posted: Mar 13, 2024

Work site: Up to 100% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Individual Contributor

Profession: Software Engineering

Discipline: Cloud Network Engineering

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview: 

Does pioneering new and innovative ways to reimagine and transform end-user productivity across the breadth and depth of Microsoft’s global workforce sound exciting to you?  Are you passionate about the future of work, driving innovation and showcasing an employee experience blueprint that inspires customers and partners to navigate their digital transformation?  If so, Microsoft Digital (MSD) team is an excellent place for you to grow your career.

Microsoft Digital (MSD)’s mission is to power, protect, and transform the employee experience at Microsoft around the world.  Come build community, explore your passions, do your best work and be a part of the team within Microsoft’s Data Platform & Growth (DPG) organization and Experiences & Devices (E+D) division. Microsoft Digital (MSD), is the team that innovates, creates, and delivers the vision for Microsoft’s employee experience, human resources, corporate and legal affairs, global real estate products, and runs Microsoft’s internal network and infrastructure, plus builds campus modernization and hybrid solutions. You will leverage the latest technologies and focus on empowering Microsoft employees with the tools and services that define both the physical and digital future of work.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

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Job Purpose: 

Microsoft Digital delivers the services, applications, and websites that every Microsoft employee uses in some part of their work – benefits, expenses, time & absence reporting, to name a few… as well as services that power business processes across Microsoft.  We are the first to use our own technology at enterprise scale. Our early adopter experiences, as well as best practices, offer an inside view of Microsoft, which helps inform our customers how to make our technology work for them.

Within Microsoft Digital, Infrastructure & Engineering Services is the team that engineers, deploys and manages the internal Microsoft network wireless infrastructure.  We deliver industry leading wireless solutions that address Microsoft business needs at a global scale. As a wireless network engineer, you are responsible for the design, deployment, and operations of network wireless devices including all the gear of wireless controllers, APs and associated tech and gear. The focus of this position is to design and deploy infrastructure solutions that provide the underpinning for client and server connectivity within the Microsoft network. This job includes interaction with multiple teams including product teams, infrastructure and security teams, and service/project management teams. Engineers are expected to adapt in a dynamic environment, work with tight timelines for project deployments, and work collaboratively with teammates.

Qualifications: 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelors/Engineering Graduate with proven experience and success in network infrastructure space at enterprise scale. Especially in the Wireless space.
• Wifi 6 and Aruba are highly preferred.
• Knowledge on Multicast and wireless client troubleshooting skills
• In depth understanding of and experience with RF and AOS 8.x architecture.
• Troubleshooting the routing protocols like BGP, EIGRP, Static and OSPF and work with internal teams to resolve issues.
• Hands-on experience in working with tools like Service Now, Cisco prime, Cisco ISE, Aruba Airwave and Clearpass etc.
• Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
• Experience with Python and Ansible preferred
• Experience using DevOps tools such as Ansible and Git

Location:  We are hiring in the following locations: Hyderabad, India.

Responsibilities:

• The Network Engineer’s responsibilities include the design, installation and maintenance of Global Wireless Infrastructure
• Expertise in Aruba and Cisco gear especially Aruba and WiFI6 tech stack is mandatory.
• Proven expertise in Wide application of principles, theories and concepts of the TCP/IP protocol suite, LAN/WAN technologies, switching, routing, structured cabling, Wireless technologies, and related troubleshooting
• Hands on experience on Ekahau Site Surveys interpreting the survey reports and redesign
• Hands on experience on AOS 8.x architechture, Airwave and Clearpass.
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware, and connectivity failures methodologically and effectively.
• Able to provide solutions that are thorough and practicable
• Ability to aid level 1 staff as a first point of escalation during problem resolution.