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Cloud Network Engineer

Microsoft· Cloud Network Engineering
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Annapolis Junction, Maryland$102.1k - $202.2kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical network infrastructure for secure data transmission across isolated cloud environments, with a focus on Azure workloads in highly secure and regulated environments.

Responsibilities

  • Help design and implement proactive, scalable infrastructure solutions that improve reliability, optimize performance, and reduce operational complexity through automation and simplified architectures.
  • Troubleshoot complex live-site and production network issues using deep expertise in network protocols, telemetry, tools, and APIs. Drive sustainable remediation through automation and engineering improvements while minimizing customer impact. Participate in on-call rotations and mentor other engineers.
  • Contribute to incident response efforts across engineering teams, ensuring timely mitigation, thorough root cause analysis, and high-quality postmortems. Analyze historical operational data to identify recurring issues and prioritize long-term improvements.
  • Leverage operational and performance data to assess business impact, identify trends, and drive engineering decisions that improve service reliability, network performance, and customer experience.
  • Help design, deploy, and operate Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies, including switching, routing, BGP, VXLAN/EVPN, VRFs, network segmentation, 802.1X/IBNS, and highly available out-of-band (OOB) management networks.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to develop scalable, resilient, and high-performance network architectures. Independently create technical designs, implementation plans, validation strategies, and deployment procedures.
  • Help develop and maintain automation solutions for network deployment, validation, monitoring, and operational workflows to reduce manual effort, improve service availability, and enforce engineering standards within secure environments.
  • Drive operational excellence through documentation, knowledge sharing, process improvement, and continuous learning.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Network design and automationLayer 2/Layer 3 networking
Nice to have:Troubleshooting and incident response

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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