Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Services. Continuing this success, Azure has expanded into the Government space with its mission-critical cloud, delivering breakthrough innovation and security to those customers and their partners. With world-class security, protection, and compliance, agencies can accelerate cloud adoption with confidence, in a consistent hybrid environment designed for flexibility and scale. Azure Government cloud enables innovation with deeply integrated cloud services, advanced analytics, and an open application platform, that provides the building blocks to rapidly develop, deploy and manage intelligent solutions. Government customers can leverage the vast network of Microsoft’s technology partners and diverse marketplace offerings, to advance their mission and serve their citizens.

The U.S. Government is eager to realize the benefits of the cloud, adopting a Cloud First policy for new investments. Microsoft is committed to supporting these initiatives and is uniquely positioned to offer hyper scale cloud capabilities to U.S. Government agencies for all its cloud computing needs.

As a Program Manager on the Azure Sovereign Engineering team, you will be responsible to review, oversee, and assess infrastructural and operations across all clouds to ensure they comply with Government regulations. You will be working in a 24x7 environment with teams of engineers to ensure Azure services meet the highest regulatory requirements.   Your work will directly contribute to the success of Azure, supporting US Government users demand for the highest levels of compliance and security.

We are looking for talented and motivated engineers that are interested in making their mark in Azure and join a team with immense growth opportunities!

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Build deep domain expertise on Azure Government technology and processes
• Work in a 24x7 shift based environment to provide oversight of critical actions and troubleshooting efforts
• Inspect actions across the environment to ensure compliance requirements are met and perform remediations as appropriate
• Drive analytics to detect anomalies and trigger response workflows
• Drive requirements to a dedicated engineering team that will drive manual actions into software to improve accuracy, reduce toil, and increase scalability

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required.
• Ability to work and communicate effectively across disciplines and teams
• Passion for delivering customer impact and value
• Superior communications skills, both verbal and written.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry experience troubleshooting, investigating, and fixing production issues in large scale cloud and/or hosted environments
• Immense intellectual curiosity, and a high threshold to work within highly complex and ambiguous situations
• Ability to work effectively both autonomously and in teams
• Experience in cloud platforms is a big plus

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:

• Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.  
• Candidates must have an active Secret level clearance. This role will require candidates to maintain Secret level clearance.  
• 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.

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