The Microsoft Cloud Server Infrastructure (CSI) team is an exciting and fast evolving engineering group within Microsoft. Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build the infrastructure that powers the world’s largest online services.

The CSI Engineering team is responsible for Microsoft's server hardware definition and design. We work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to design and develop server hardware that drives our cloud services at the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO).  

Responsibilities

We currently seek a Senior Hardware Program Manager; in this role you will work with hardware, software and service engineers, datacenter and supply chain managers, server manufacturers, component suppliers and others to support the development of the next generation of server hardware and peripherals that will power the Microsoft Cloud.

For this role, we are seeking an experienced industry professional who can contribute to the overall strategy, definition and implementation of critical hardware and component testing & qualification initiatives and programs to drive the overall supplier ecosystem, optimize and deliver industry leading cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft’s online services used by our customers around the world.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Partnering with internal business and engineering team members to gather and define overall business and engineering needs to deliver high quality server solutions for datacenter deployments.
• Develop an understanding of business objectives, market conditions, new product introductions and technology transitions to help define the overall testing, validation and qualification initiatives and programs.
• Partnering with external hardware suppliers, test labs and test equipment suppliers to ensure the design, quality and delivery metrics are well defined and on track .
• Coordinate with suppliers on commodity qualification schedules, expectations and roadmaps.
• Develop partnerships and collaborate with internal teams to understand and help drive hardware requirements across various initiatives to increase team productivity and scale qualification capacity across the globe.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Minimum BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar field (or similar experience)
• 7 years or greater industry experience working in the technology field or on development of electromechanical devices, from definition to delivery
• Direct experience working with vendors for HW development.
• Strong ability to work across multiple organizations
• Familiarity with the key elements of server and data center architecture
• Effective communication skills required, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge cloud technology that changes our world. The Cloud Server Infrastructure (CSI) team in Microsoft’s Azure C+E division is responsible for delivering server infrastructure for Microsoft’s online services. The hardware for operating these services (over 200 and counting), comprises of hundreds of thousands of servers spread globally and applications that reach hundreds of millions of users every day. Our customer-base is growing rapidly, our infrastructure investments are multiplying, and the size of our global infrastructure is increasing by the day - along with the scale of our challenges. Learn more about our team and projects here Azure Hardware Infrastructure

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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.

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