Job Description

Sr Cloud Network Engineer

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India



Date posted

May 19, 2025

Job number

1810180

Work site

Up to 100% work from home

Travel

0-25

%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Cloud Network Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

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Overview

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.

Azure is the fastest growing business in Microsoft's history and is the foundation of Microsoft's commercial Cloud Services. Azure differentiates itself as the only hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud with a true hybrid story. Customers and analysts recognize Azure's tremendous momentum which continues month over month. Microsoft Azure's core priority is to be world's most trusted, secure, and global cloud and a great place for people to work. We are part of the Azure Networking team responsible for designing, building, and operating the most reliable cloud network in the world - Azure.



We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the network that powers the world's largest online services. For this position, the candidate should be familiar with network protocols, network devices including network interface cards, switches, and routers. You should feel comfortable working with large-scale distributed systems, in managing the network infrastructure that supports the Azure Cloud infrastructure as well as in designing and building the large-scale distributed systems that manage the network.



We are looking for Network Engineers at all experience levels for Microsoft India development center in Hyderabad.###

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

8+ years of experience with (including but not limited to) any of the following networking protocols:

o Layer7:Application (HTTP, HTTPS)
o Layer4:Transport & security (TCP/UDP, TLS,VPN)

o Layer3:IPv4, IPv6 and routingProficient computer science fundamentals, fluent in concepts like multi-threading and asynchronous programming, good grasp of system design, data structures and algorithms Experience in one of C#, C++, Golang, JAVA, RUST Proficient skills in Distributed systems and building cloud services Experience with creating and operating distributed services in Azure/AWS/GCP and/or competitive offerings Familiarity with Application (HTTP, HTTPS), transport & security (TCP/UDP, TLS) protocols

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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Responsibilities

Applies knowledge of network technologies to contribute to network design, implementation, and operation. Translates high-level designs for datacenters or network sites into low-level designs and collaborates with internal teams and external partners to facilitate the development, expansion, or modification of network infrastructure within existing datacenters or network sites. Triages, troubleshoots, and repairs live site issues by applying an understanding of network, its components and features as well as problem management tools (e.g., root cause analysis, trend analysis, postmortems), to discover and drive solutions with minimal or no disruption to customers; participates in on-call/DRI duties to troubleshoot incidents in production. Collaborates with teams across the organization to support and manage network deployments; works with machine-readable definitions to manage deployments. Analyzes capacity issues across basic transfer protocols and identifies network components that may need to be modified or replaced; provides recommended changes to hardware and/or network components to internal teams working with external partners and suppliers to improve capacity.


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