Sr. Cloud Engineer - Monitoring

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Redmond
Posted on: June 7, 2021

Job Description:

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting products in Microsoft, passionate about exceeding customer expectations and advancing Microsoft's cloud first strategy? Are you interested in a start-up like environment, passionate about cloud computing technology and driving growth in one of Microsoft's core businesses? Azure Customer Experience (CXP) team is searching for a customer obsessed engineer (with Monitoring experience) that can drive engineering excellence, embody our culture of inclusiveness, growth-mindset, and unwavering dedication to diversity and help manage service life-cycle operations in production environments.

We are a fast-paced agile team in a start-up like culture. Our "no dead-ends" , "whatever it takes" , philosophy ensures that every customer can realize their full potential through the Microsoft Cloud. "Customer First", Automation, Data Driven, Collaboration and Troubleshooting are few characteristics of our team. We are growing fast but remain agile. You will work with teams across Microsoft and external customers. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to enable a broad spectrum of monitoring scenarios, other life-cycle operations to manage mission critical production environments in Azure

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of DevOps/Monitoring experience in Cloud
• Bachelor or master's degree in Computer Engineering or similar field
• Experience in Microsoft Azure Platform (Compute, Storage, Networking, etc) or (Equivalent clouds like AWS, GCP, etc)
• Managing/Operating/Troubleshooting experience in Azure using Azure Management Technologies (SCOM, Azure Monitor, Monitoring Agents, Kusto Query Language, ARM template, Azure Policies, IaC and deployment models.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Monitoring related technologies like Azure Monitor, Log , Resource Graph, Azure Alerts, Network Watcher, Grafana, Ambari, Prometheus, Datadog, Confluent, etc
• Experience in deploying, configuring, and operating enterprise Monitoring solution.
• Troubleshooting, Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and internal applications issues within large Environments.
• Experience in communicating to a variety of stakeholders including large enterprise customers, executive management, and engineering teams.
• Knowledge and implementation of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Performance Tuning best practices
• Strong leadership with proven track record of DevOps including customer focus and business /strategic acumen.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, an ability to use various data signals and telemetry, tools, and methodologies to improve monitoring capabilities and develop solutions.
• Ability to distill, prioritize and act on feedback from stake holders to improve monitoring capabilities.
• Motivated to learn new monitoring technologies, preview features and implementation as needed.

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.

#AZCXP

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.#AzCXP

Responsibilities include:

• Analyze technical architecture of customer workloads, applications to understand dependencies, points of failure, impacts, external & internal interfaces, to produce end-end monitoring solution to detect issues proactively.
• Develop, maintain Monitoring processes, tools and ensure monitoring principles, processes, tools are established and adhered to.
• Discover new Azure Monitoring improvements (internal, external) and our Monitoring Solutions, tools and incorporate the same in existing customer engagements to improve the customer experience.
• Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC, CI/CD pipelines, ARM templates, Azure policies, Scripts/Runbooks/Webhooks/Tools) to monitor mission critical workloads, applications in Azure
• Provide design inputs, specifications, requirements to influence and advance Azure platform monitoring capabilities based on customer engagement experience.
• Identify, implement solutions for customer's challenges in Cloud to drive satisfaction, Azure consumption. Act as an engineering SPOC for assigned customers.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot Azure related issues escalated by service desk teams or routed via incident management in a 24x7 Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) environment.
• Participate in monthly/quarterly business review meetings with customers and prepare reports, presentations.

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