Network Automation Engineer
Microsoft
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Job Description
Overview
The Azure WAN Team is growing and seeking a creative and detail-oriented Network Automation Engineer at Microsoft. This role combines networking experience with software development fundamentals to design, develop, and build automation components for a global backbone network.
Responsibilities
- Design reliable, scalable, high-performance network features.
- Contribute to testing and validation of network devices and firmware.
- Implement test cases with existing automation tools.
- Manage network buildouts and guide technical staff.
- Analyze capacity issues and recommend hardware or network improvements.
- Support incident management and participate in post mortem analysis.
- Communicate across teams and manage dependencies.
Qualifications
Required: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related field, or equivalent experience. Ability to meet Microsoft and government security screening requirements is essential.
Preferred: Experience coding (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python) and familiarity with networking protocols (BGP, ISIS, Segment Routing, MPLS).
Key skills/competency
- network automation
- Azure WAN
- network protocols
- coding
- scalability
- testing
- incident management
- capacity analysis
- design
- automation tools
How to Get Hired at Microsoft
- Customize your resume: Highlight relevant coding and networking experience.
- Research Microsoft: Understand Azure WAN and company culture.
- Prepare examples: Detail network automation projects and problem solving.
- Practice technical tests: Focus on coding in C, Python, and protocols.
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