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QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND extensive technical experience in critical environments, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering
• OR equivalent experience.
• Extensive technical experience working within Data Center Operations or distributed systems.
• Management Information Systems (MIS), or other industry or product specific Engineering Certifications.
  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.
  

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations

Leverages advanced technical expertise, judgment, and decision making to coordinate multiple work streams and resources in highly complex crisis situations to drive mitigation plan and resolve crisis by engaging necessary teams and escalating to appropriate stakeholders. Applies diagnostic expertise.

• Responds to incidents during regular on-call rotations, including highly complex issues with major customer or business impact, by identifying the level of impact, troubleshooting, making difficult decisions based on business impact, deploying appropriate fixes to resolve root cause(s), and driving automations for prevention of recurring issues through managing multiple workstreams and/or resources required for incident resolution (e.g., product teams and owners, organization leadership, engineering teams).
• Drives post-mortems and shares insights related to highly complex incidents and their resolution through postmortem reports and regular review meetings to identify opportunities to adopt similar solutions that can prevent incident recurrence in similar systems, platforms, and products across organizations.
• End-to-end expertise in service and/or system design, interactions between technology layers and components, functions of infrastructure, and dependencies at scale.

Maintains advanced knowledge and expertise as technology landscape evolves, leveraging industry norms and deep understanding to drive the adoption of innovative solutions across