Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind one of the World’s largest Cloud Infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as powering Microsoft’s “Cloud First” mission. 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 program manager to help achieve that mission.  If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s Cloud is deployed and operated globally, and want to be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft - this job is for you!

We are seeking an experienced technical program manager to drive projects that will introduce new capabilities into our geographical information system, Octant.  The successful candidate will work with cross-organizational engineering leaders to identify opportunities to establish geospatial analytical features that will enable  planners, analysts, and engineers to design cost-optimized data center infrastructure that achieve the highest standards in providing rapid-fast network performance, and always-up network availability.  This role requires in-depth knowledge in data center infrastructure, along with subject matter expertise in network architecture, topologies, equipment, protocols, telemetry, and design principles.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders to define product features and construct functional specs.
• Prepare plans to manage the delivery of new product capabilities, along with tracking program scope, schedule, and budget.
• Run sprint planning, standups, UAT, and release deployments.
• Prepare presentations to report program status to executive and management level stakeholders.
• Evangelize geospatial system capabilities across CO+I and partner organizations, to achieve maximum business leverage.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Experience in geospatial analytics, tools, and frameworks, and in building spatial intelligence systems.
• Subject matter expertise in data center infrastructure and deployments.
• In-depth understanding of network architecture, topology, equipment, protocols, and telemetry systems.
• Working knowledge in design principles for achieving network performance and availability constraints.
• Strong expertise in wide-area network architecture and design, from fiber to router.
• Strong expertise in data center and metropolitan area network design principles.
• Experience working with telecom, network, internet, and colo service providers.
• Working understanding of the software engineering lifecycle and methodologies.
• Experience in developing applications using Azure's IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS products and services.
• Software engineering background in Python, C#, and in web frameworks.
• Strong expertise in data query languages, Kusto, and SQL.
• Background in data modeling, structures, and translation.
• Fundamental understanding of descriptive statistics.
• Academic understanding of process engineering, and project and service management methodologies.  (Six Sigma, PMBOK, ITIL).
• 8 years of technical program management experience shipping production apps.
• B.S. or Masters in Computer Science or related engineering field.

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.

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