Sr. IS&T Lab Site Lead

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.   

We are looking for an experienced information systems and technology (IS&T) professional to join the IS&T team embedded within Microsoft’s SCHIE engineering team.  The Senior IT Hardware Lab Engineer will be part of a dynamic engineering infrastructure team enabling our technical creativity.  This role will have primary responsibilities overseeing the Raleigh Site, server support infrastructure enabling and managing our hardware validation labs with cloud services and related engineering systems and the operational teams delivering these services.  Come and be part of a team which deeply collaborates with silicon engineers to fulfill a unified vision.

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.

Responsibilities

• Administrative server specification, deployment, maintenance, and support  
• Top level support for Windows cluster and lab support infrastructure issues  
• Support operating system deployment, patching, and orchestration systems  
• Oversee external server operations staff  
• Review telemetry for server functions  
• Define process and policy around server infrastructure architecture and lab operation concerns  
• Interface and advise engineering teams on complex network connected hardware deployments  
• Interface and advise other disciplines within the team on deployment, security, management concerns

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Master's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience in networking engineering, or system administration
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience in networking engineering, or system administration
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Windows Systems Administration Experience  
• 2+ years of experience in UNIX/Linux Systems Administration Experience   
• 3+ years of experience in system automation experience using some scripting language such as Shell, PowerShell, Perl, or Python  

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.   

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 2+ Years’ Azure cloud administrative experience delivering IaaS services