Our Vision

The vision of the Azure - Production Infrastructure Engineering (PIE)  group is to make it easy for everyone to create, consume, and manage planetary-scale, reliable cloud production services and infrastructure to achieve more. As a team, we bring together significant and complementary capabilities with tooling, infrastructure, monitoring and insights in new ways to increase our perspective. Our diversity of knowledge and experience comes together for the benefit of our users, our colleagues, our business, and ourselves.

What We Do

Within Azure- PIE the Geneva Analytics Platform team owns and operates petabyte scale data platforms to enable Azure to operate in a compliant, secure manner, and to support the Azure pillars of trust (secure, compliant), quality and growth. We enable multiple scenarios including near-real time diagnostics, business analytics and data center buildout and expansion. We build and operate the data platforms for near-real time, dynamic understanding of the entire Azure platform and business, including infrastructure (power, cooling, data center facilities), hardware, services (networking, virtual machines), customers (usage, revenue, CSAT) and supportability.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with various teams in Azure Compute, Storage, Networking, Procurement, Security, Support, etc. to deeply understand and enable their scenarios
• Define and develop product vision, roadmaps and features based on customer scenarios and needs. Be customer obsessed
• Work with the engineering team to put together ambitious yet achievable execution plans that make the right tradeoffs for business and customer outcome
• Analyze competition and drive differentiation of our offering
• Prioritization of features across 1st party and 3rd party requirements from customers and partner team
• Effectively communicating strategy and goals and how they align to the team’s work.
• Build / Measure / Learn methodology and drive feature backed by hypothesis and validation
• Define and track usage telemetry of features and use it drive improvements in the product
• Representing the products at various conferences and closely work with Field and Marketing to drive adoption

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience as a Program Manager
• BS, BA, or MS Computer Science or an equivalent technical degree program 
• Minimum of 3 years experience working in a Cloud, Internet, or e-Commerce Platform Environment. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven record of building technical and business relationships with Senior Stakeholders.
• Track record of working closely with development teams (agile methodology)
• Exceptional decision-making and prioritization skills, conflict resolution, community building, and follow through.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, and ability to speak with influence and impact.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly to people with or without a technical background.
• Track record of v-team accomplishments (cross boundary collaboration and interpersonal awareness).
• 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.

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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.
Microsoft 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

Microsoft 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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.