‘Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Planning (MCIP)’ is a team behind one of the World’s largest Cloud Infrastructure responsible for powering all Microsoft 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. One of our biggest challenges has been to keep up with the infrastructure growth plans and providing smart distribution of the resources to our customer and partners. We need skilled developers with a passion for technology, a vision of the future, and sound business judgment to help drive the organization forward. The Capacity Management team within MCIO is at the tip of the Capacity Fulfillment promise for the Microsoft cloud, building the engineering systems that are needed to address this critical problem for Microsoft. We are a dynamic team working with customers across the globe in delivering to the promise of the Microsoft cloud. Strong empathy for the customer, deep engineering and problem solving capabilities and the ability to stay nimble and motivated through challenges brought up by the constantly growing and expanding customer base and demand are characteristics of our team.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who is passionate about solving large business optimization problems at scale and help develop a new class of services and automation techniques to innovate how Microsoft manages Cloud capacity. If you are comfortable incubating software solutions to large-scale business problems, can collaborate effectively throughout C+E, enjoy dealing with ambiguity and creating clarity then this is the position for you.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to enumerating and documenting the business and engineering requirements for cloud infrastructure capacity planning and management
• Work on a highly scalable & reliable capacity management system which can dynamically manage the capacity to meet the customer demand
• Leverage and use templates, best practices, and automated quality gates necessary to ensure consistent implementation of components across team
• Contribute to the architecture, design reviews for across multiple components
• Drive execution and demonstrate end to end ownership of technical projects tasks to successful completion

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent,

•  5 years in Software Engineering.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to quickly pick up new technologies and industry trends
• Experience with big data is a plus
• Strong problem solving, communication skills, and self-driven.

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.

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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