Are you looking to make a real difference in Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Do you want to work at the forefront of Cloud Computing to design, deliver & operate cloud-scale systems that are the foundation of the World’s Computer which is Azure? Do you want to be part of a highly motivated and passionate team that works together to do what it takes for our customers to be successful while having fun and learning along the way? 

Azure Core is Azure's most profitable business and growing incredibly fast! We, the Azure Core Compute team in IDC, pride ourselves in working without boundaries to deliver the cloud platform capable of running any workload. And we mean ANY! Think of any large Microsoft service; Teams, Bing, Exchange, Xbox, SQL Azure, Office 365, HDInsight, COSMOS DB…. Or customers such as Accenture, Adobe, Walgreens, Walmart, Flipkart, In-Mobi and the multitude of the large/medium/small shopping, banking, finance, gaming, logistics, enterprises, data analytics/management, storage services of the world. They run on infrastructure we build. 

As the owners of the platform that runs such a diversity of applications, we need to guarantee QoS for our customers. Metrics like uptime/availability/reliability and service performance take on a new meaning at the scale we operate. Our customers want 5 9’s+ of availability, transparent maintenance & updates to their systems, resiliency of their workloads despite H/W and system failures that happen all the time in the datacentre, ability to deploy & dynamically scale large number of VMs/containers reliably. Ensuring the QoS at scale requires us to architect and build systems across all layers and we work on architectural improvements across the entire Azure Core stack (Azure Compute Manager, Azure Host OS and Host Agent, Compute Resource Provider, Azure Networking etc) to achieve the SLAs. 

You:  

Are curious, looking for opportunities to learn and adapt. 

Are passionate about making customers successful. 

Are into solving challenging/innovative technical problems with an iterative and measurable approach. 

Bring a diverse/fresh perspective in what you do. 

We: 

Are the team for you!! 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

As the leader in this role for Azure Core, you will own the vision to build and operate world class E-E intelligent engineering systems & services which help achieve measurable improvements in the platform experience for our customers and to the quality of the platform itself. You will architect and build this engineering platform to scale with the growth and increasing complexity of the Azure Core platform.  Achieving this vision is central to our goal of establishing Azure as the world’s computer for running customer workloads and retaining customer trust. 

Every service large or small, infrastructure or customer exposed would be first deployed on infrastructure that is facilitated by services you build, and then deployed into production using the intelligent systems that you put in place, which would go with guarantees of customer SLA, availability and smarts of roll back/forward driven by policies. The systems would need to cater to some of the biggest services on the planet. 

The position requires very strong customer obsession in understanding customer experience and driving efforts in the platform to improve this experience. It also requires a strong One Microsoft way of thinking in collaborating with multiple customer-facing and engineering teams across geos to deliver strong results. 

You will also: 

Bring clarity, create energy, and drive results – you’ll set a vision, rally the team behind it, and deliver for our customers. 

Demonstrate the Microsoft manager attributes of coach, model, and care with the engineers on your team, so they all learn, grow, and succeed. 

Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with partner organizations. 

Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers. 

Qualifications

Qualifications 

12+ years of experience in commercial software development. 

4+ years' minimum experience in a leadership position managing enterprise platform, product, or services teams

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software 

Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices. (Required) 

Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence. 

Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills. 

Experience building RESTful services. 

Experience developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar Cloud platforms (Strongly preferred) 

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, open-source stacks such as Terraform/Ansible/Chef/Puppet (Strongly preferred) 

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