Cloud Network Engineer II

Microsoft
United States, Texas, Irving
7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map)
Oct 30, 2025
OverviewThe Azure Networking Team is growing and we're looking for a creative and diligent engineer who can combine networking experience with software development fundamentals to help build the world's best private backbone network and Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform. We're passionate about automating every facet of the network to converge on a self-growing, self-healing network. We want engineers that are equally passionate and can look at the problems with a customer's perspective to create user experiences that truly enable and empower Technicians, Engineers and Planners. This is a high visibility position as a Cloud Network Engineer II in an area of large and expanding investment for Microsoft Azure and offers a terrific opportunity for technical and career growth. 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. ResponsibilitiesFocusing on the Express Route and Global backbone Networks, and working closely with partner teams in Azure Networking, you'll be a critical part designing and developing automation and large-scale services that drive our network to autonomy. This will include owning components from design through to deployment and operations. When issues arise, you troubleshoot live site issues to discover and drive solutions with minimal or no disruption to customers. You perform testing and validation of network devices, and demonstrate some knowledge of data. You know what data is needed and how to find new or missing data. You provide instructions to the data center on how to repair and maintain physical network hardware, and take notes during incidents.In addition, you participate in postmortem and root-cause analysis processes to continuously improve network reliability. You support innovation and cost management by developing new ideas for systems and tools that meet customer and/or business needs. You proactively share information across disciplines within your feature team in a timely manner with an appropriate level of detail that is tailored to your audience.You provide feedback and some mentorship to other engineers, while also proactively seeking mentorship and feedback from others.