Senior Mechanical Engineer Manager

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services that millions of people use every day. With more than 95% of Fortune 500 business on Azure, 180 million using Office 365, and millions using other services – all running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure – CO+I builds and operates the foundation upon which Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization comes to life.       

Are you passionate about cloud computing? Do you get excited about taking a hands-on approach to transforming Microsoft’s most critical business through tooling, automation, and process improvement? If so, come and help us build the most reliable & efficient datacenter infrastructure on the planet. The CO+I Critical Environment Systems Intelligence (CESI) team is responsible for designing and delivering solutions to support global datacenter operations and to improve availability. CESI is helping to drive CO+I’s transition to a customer centric, data driven, live service culture. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer Manager, you will be a key player in this transition.     

As a Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager on the CO+I Critical Environment Service Intelligence (CESI) team, you will be responsible for managing a team of engineers and onboarding as well as driving the modernization of mechanical and electrical hierarchy for existing and new datacenters.  You will partner with CO+I teams to build off and leverage each other to ensure that we are driving continuous improvements across the fleet to streamline and automate the collection of data and the visualization of mechanical and electrical systems hierarchy.  

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.  

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. 

• Manage, mentor, and grow the engineers and contributors working on hierarchy initiatives.   

• Set clear expectations, ownership boundaries, and success metrics for the Hierarchy Team.   

• Foster a culture of proactive design, automation-first thinking, and outcome-driven execution for the hierarchy system  

• Own the Mechanical and Electrical Hierarchy vision, roadmap, and execution, ensuring alignment with business outcomes, site operations, and long-term platform scalability.   

• Drive the standardization of hierarchy models across assets, systems, and telemetry sources to enable consistent onboarding and operational insights.   

• Serve as the single-threaded owner for hierarchy quality, correctness, and lifecycle management.  

• Manage the strategy and implementation of 0-touch onboarding for Mechanical and Electrical hierar