Senior Critical Environment Software Engineer

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Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation organization (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. CO+I is responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, competent individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.

Datacenter Monitoring and Controls Engineering (DMCE) group is responsible for critical environment monitoring and controls application deployments at new datacenters. For existing datacenters, DMCE is responsible for retrofitting and upgrading datacenter critical environment monitoring and controls applications for security compliance, new functionality, and compliance.

The position will be a Senior Critical Environments (CE) Software Engineer position for Microsoft datacenters globally. This position is a multi-disciplinary role which involves development and support of software solutions that extend existing and planned Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS) and Building Automation System (BAS) capabilities. Additionally, this role will develop and support automation tooling to increase engineering time efficiency as well as overall quality delivered to the sites.

• This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ. 
• Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location. 
• This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%

Responsibilities

The Senior Critical Environment Software Engineer will be responsible for delivering impact by supporting current and future initiatives that allow Microsoft to leverage existing EPMS/BAS systems more effectively and empower colleagues to deliver more internally performed EPMS/BAS deployments at Microsoft datacenters around the world.

You will work closely with industrial controls experts with domain specific knowledge in a variety of EPMS/BAS vendor solutions. Through these partnerships, software tools will be developed and maintained that reliably extend the capabilities of the vendor applications.

Additionally, you will be expected to document developed solutions and update documentation as needed. Field engineers rely heavily on accurate and clear documentation to support rolling out solutions that are developed.

Finally, you will be looking for opportunities within our current and planned deployments to improve rate of datacenter capacity delivered, decrease time to act on actionable events, reduce operator alarm fatigue, reduce time to develop/deploy internally developed systems, and reduce overall costs of getting a system to a production ready state.

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Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in at least one of the following:
  • Experience with Python scripting language
  • Experience working with datacenter customers
  • Experience with one or more EPMS/BAS vendor applications (e.g. Schneider Electric, Eaton, etc.)
  • Experience working independently and as a member of a cross-functional team.

• 1+ years of experience in .Net C# software development, SQL query language and with any Cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS, or equivalent)
• 1+ years of experience i