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The Azure Core organization, specifically Networking team is seeking a highly motivated, talented and technical program manager to deliver on our mission to build world’s largest, most reliable and secure cloud network. As part of this team, you will work directly with core Azure engineering teams to deliver intelligent, massively scalable, automated solutions that give our 1st and 3rd party customers world class infrastructure to run their mission critical services. You will advance the state-of-the-art in core Azure platforms to manage server clusters hosting Azure workloads running on millions of servers.

As a Technical Program Manager II, you will collaborate actively across dozens of teams across Azure to present, brainstorm and bring ideas to life. This is the very nature of a fast-paced and ever-growing environment – hence, at Microsoft, we are all leaders – we use every challenge as an opportunity to develop each other, improve our product, and deliver on our mission. We operate as One Microsoft. Specifically, this role will offer the opportunity to learn and work on niche technologies, while making a huge impact in delivery of Azure Availability Zones across multiple geographies, enabling collaboration across geographically distributed teams

To help customers world over, achieve their goals, Azure continues to build the largest global footprint of any Cloud provider with 65+ regions live and many more in the pipeline. As an increasing number of customers and partners make their switch to cloud, it’s critical that we deliver the necessary innovation to make Azure, the cloud platform of choice, while continuing to lower our operating costs. Azure Networking provides the foundation for Microsoft's vision to build Azure as the "World's Computer Network" and so the responsibility and potential for impact here is huge.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmaps for scenarios / features / capabilities that you will own.

• Develop credible execution plans.

• Apply data driven insight where possible to improve efficiency.

• Design features by converting complex requirements, metrics, and policy into technical feature specifications and designs.

• Ability to work independently in highly ambiguous environments, with engineering, operations and relevant business groups across Microsoft.

• Take a structural approach in solving complex problems. Communicate to senior decision makers in a clear & compelling way.

• Stellar cross group collaboration, able to drive decisive action in partnership with others in a large & diverse organization and deliver results that depend on broader Microsoft org.

• Define targets for key business KPIs, and track and report progress on them.

• Define and implement QoS and SLA metrics for your scenarios / features / capabilities.

• Help lead and champion a team culture that embraces diversity and inclusivity.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• Bachelor's Degree AND experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

• Software industry experience working as a technical program or product manager

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

• Experience in

• Data Center Network Technologies

• Software Defined Networks

• Distributed systems, building large scale platforms, and cloud technologies.

• Proven ability to discuss distributed computing topics with technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.

• Domain knowledge about cloud datacenter infrastructure & environment.

• Strong track record of self-directed execution.

• Scripting and/or programming skills in C#, R, Python, or PowerShell.

• Hands on experience with data analytic tools (such as Kusto/Azure Data Explorer, Power BI, SQL).

• Strong written communication and presentation skills.

• Ability to be strategic, but also drive tactics and execution as needed.

Other Requirements:

• 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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