Senior Software Engineer - Network Engineer

The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a secure cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. As Microsoft continues to evolve its secure infrastructure and elevate customer trust, the Secure Production Access (SPA) team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Virtualization team.

SPA is at the forefront of enabling secure access to production environments, ensuring that Microsoft services remain resilient, compliant, and secure. In this role, you will lead engineering efforts that modernize secure access experiences, rapidly scale internal products, and ensure world‑class reliability for services used daily by thousands of engineers. You will own complex technical areas end‑to‑end and collaborate extensively with teams across Microsoft. This role is based in Redmond, WA and requires working from the office at least three days per week.

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.
 
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.

• Design, implement, and manage Azure network infrastructure: Build and maintain Azure virtual networks, secure HRE network segments, and connectivity solutions to ensure high availability, scalability, and robust security. 
• Network Security & Infrastructure Management: Configure and administer network firewalls and proxy servers, VPN, enforce security policies, and monitor network traffic to protect critical systems and data.
• Automation & Deployment: Develop automation scripts and tooling (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bicep) to streamline network configurations, deployments, and monitoring to remove person dependency. Lead the deployment of network updates and infrastructure changes, implementing infrastructure-as-code practices for consistency and efficiency.
• Incident Response: Serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex network and infrastructure incidents. Perform in-depth troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for issues related to Azure networking, HRE connectivity, firewall/proxy configurations, and system performance. Ensure timely resolution of incidents to minimize downtime and impact on users.
• Performance Optimization & Compliance: Continuously analyze network performance and security postures. Implement optimizations to improve throughput, reliability, and security. Ensure all network changes and operations comply with organizational security standards and regulatory requirements.

Required/minimum qualifications