Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a strong passion for customer focused solutions, insight, and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Lead E2E @scale system level debug activities in the cluster to meet fleet KPIs
Collaborate with hardware, firmware and software teams to enable comprehensive root cause analysis
Accountable to meet debug/ triage SLA
Provide priority to issues based on technical and business understanding of both complexity & impact
Identify, drive execution and E2E verification plans to proactively address open issues
Develop best in class debug methodologies, test strategies and platform validation plan for the at-scale clusters
Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to drive debug efficiency
Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment
Effectively communicate with partners and stakeholders for planning and progress on initiatives using data
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of technical leadership experience as a platform architect or validation architect or a lead debug engineer or equivalent industry experience
Deep understanding of modern server architectures – Memory or CPU or storage or system level firmware
Capable of technical deep dives into platform design, verification flows, operating systems, networking, and storage
Preferred Qualifications:
Platform Debug and validation experience
Data analytical skills- Knowing how to use data based and analytical tools
Excellent communication skills using various forms of media
Able to plan work, and work to a plan adapting as necessary in a rapidly evolving Environment
Individual effectiveness skills such as discipline, time management, decision making, planning, and organizing work, summarizing results through technical reports
Self-driven, self-motivated individual must be able work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment and across the team of engineers
Other Qualifications:
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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