Microsoft Corporation Hiring for Software Engineering Manager at Multiple Locations, India Full Time

Are you passionate about joining a team of engineers working on building and helping ISVs build critical cloud solutions that address the most challenging customer scenarios, and then translating solution findings into measurable engineering feedback to drive the platform forward? Do you enjoy working directly with Microsoft’s largest and most strategic ISVs, in addition to Microsoft’s engineering teams? If so, this role might be ideal for you.

MCIGET (Microsoft Cloud For Industry and Global Expansion Team) within the Cloud + AI engineering organization, is seeking a Senior/Principal Engineer with expertise in cloud solution architecture, design and implementation, developing technically deep solutions leveraging the breadth of core cloud services across Azure, Dynamics, Teams and Power Platform.

Responsibilities

The MCIGET Senior/Principal Software Engineer role focuses on:

Technical Responsibilities

• Developing code/automation/scripts/queries etc. as applicable for infrastructure, applications and data platform

• Developing reusable applications and solution architectures derived from learnings from customer/ISV experiences scenarios.

• Engaging directly helping with Microsoft’s most important Customers/ISVs in their journey to cloud and beyond

• Taking responsibility for architecture/design decisions on solutions of significant scale/volume/complexity that push platform limits.

• Identifying solution patterns, gaps, whitespace, limits and adoption barriers and driving feedback into the engineering teams to fuel the continued evolution of our cloud platform

• Working on both hybrid, edge and native cloud solutions across a broad range of cloud infrastructures

• Working on internal initiatives – building synthetics, building internal analytical dashboards, engineering feedback curation etc.

Working directly with both customers/ISVs and engineering leaders alike, this role presents a robust opportunity to have a tangible impact on our cloud products and strategy, as well as fuel our customer/ISV success. Intentional collaboration is a must in this role. This role will be based in India with travel required likely around 20% depending on customer or project requirements.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• [Senior or Principal Engineer depending on experience level]

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a technology-focused or Engineering-related discipline

• 10+ years of experience in architecting, building, shipping and operating services

• 3 years or more of experience in building cloud-based solutions

• Excellent at interfacing with customers on-site, and a strong desire to help them succeed

• Deep technical development knowledge on Azure (PaaS/IaaS/SAAS), or Microsoft Power Platform or Microsoft Dynamics or similar experience with AWS/GCP

• Experience with cloud infrastructure – compute, storage, networking and app/data services

• Deep experience with at-least one of the following

• App development with cloud services, containers and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes,

• Provisioning/automation technologies like ARM/Terraform/Cloud Formation Templates or equivalent, DevOps

• Data Platform Technologies (experience in multiple preferred) – RDBMS, NoSQL, Data Warehouse, Big Data, AI/ML

• Experience realizing various application/solution migration strategies (i.e. on-premise datacenters to public clouds)

• Experience on dealing with non-functional aspects in solutions of significant scale – availability, disaster recovery, security, performance etc.

• A positive team player rather than an outside critic, focused on conscious collaboration and customer obsession

• Aptitude and hunger to learn and adapt to the ever-changing cloud technologies

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills (e.g. knowing your audience and adjusting accordingly), articulating with courage and conviction

• Humble and willing to learn from anyone on the team

MCIGET team embraces diversity and teamwork. We enjoy great challenges, collaboration and seeing our customers succeed and our platform evolve. We have a start-up and growth mind-set and are deeply passionate about our customers and our architectural standards. We are also a lot of fun!

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.

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. 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .

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