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Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. At its core, datacenter availability isn’t just a metric, but a promise of continuity. It is imperative to identify availability improvements & opportunities across Microsoft datacenters. This goal will continually allow our operational cloud to scale in a safe, secure, and reliable manner for our customers. The Continuous Evaluation Program (CEP) is a strategic initiative within Microsoft’s global datacenter operations, designed to systematically assess, monitor, and optimize the ongoing operational readiness of our infrastructure. CEP plays a critical role in strengthening Microsoft’s availability, business reputation, and customer experience by proactively identifying risks, mitigating exposure, and driving consistency in operational excellence. As we accelerate our speed to market, CEP ensures scalable, reliable, and high-quality solutions through continuous evaluation and behavioral influence.
Job Responsibility:
Align with Microsoft’s culture, objectives and operational standards
Deliver a best-in-class, objective and impartial evaluation program monitoring Microsoft’s datacenter infrastructure, operational capabilities and performance against our standards, best practices and programs
Drive global consistency of processes, procedures, and reporting with local operations teams
Develop methodologies and metrics to validate data center performance, system control parameters and operational efficiency against design intent
Support Microsoft’s datacenter portfolio expansion to include new country and facility onboarding through operational and site risk reviews
Manage programs associated with operational readiness
Review compliance with existing corrective and preventative maintenance programs to enhance operational readiness
Evolve operational excellence with key focus areas of risk management, uptime availability and safety
Focus on improved environmental performance, compliance, and risk management
Support and promote improvement, best practices, corrective and preventive actions
Engages with appropriate partner teams to support initiatives, tasks or projects
Establish strong working relationships and engagement with our Engineering Groups (EGs), key partners and Landlord partners (including contributing to MBRs and QBRs)
Work with regional and global peers to share and build best practices across the entire datacenter portfolio
Partner with regional operational leadership and local teams to reduce high-impacting and human-error Critical Environment (CE) incidents year over year
Monitor and verify the implementation and effectiveness of remediation action plans
Create an environment to promote learning and innovation opportunities
Obtain a clear understanding of Microsoft’s day-to-day operation, management and maintenance expectations for all critical equipment, controls and processes including (but not limited to), operating procedures, standards, change management and drills
Requirements:
Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience
Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
12+ years relevant technical engineering experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud background check
Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements
Nice to have:
Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years technical engineering experience