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As a Critical Environment Platform Engineer, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform. You will be part of a team that is responsible for operating the Critical Infrastructure Platform across our unified global datacenters; managing the demand planning and capacity utilization; and responsible for running the physical infrastructure (including supply chain, hardware, power, security, and workflow teams).
Job Responsibility:
Support a hybrid Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD) DevOps virtualized infrastructure consisting of Windows & Linux Server Operating System, Hyper-V, Active Directory, Domain Name System, PowerShell scripting, with a focus on data protection technologies, service metrics and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting, documentation skills
Perform, maintain, and continuously improve automated operating system installation and configuration
Configure and maintain hands-on bare metal enterprise-class server systems, including automated periodic firmware and driver updates at scale, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) and Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) configurations and hardware troubleshooting
Monitor servers, ensure service levels and KPIs are met and maintained, provide security conscience outcomes maintaining compliance alignment, and ensure 24/7/365 service and infrastructure operations support with continuous optimizations
Transition manual operational processes to automation while leveraging CI/CD DevOps principles
Partner with a global team while helping bring projects to successful outcomes and delivering rigorous documentation artifacts
Share responsibility for automating, securing, configuring, and delivering support of the Critical Environments infrastructure & related programs and projects in existing and future datacenters
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree or Trade Certification in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud Background Check
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND an internship in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering OR equivalent experience
Familiarity with enterprise large-scale cloud or distributed systems
Demonstrate basic understanding of Configuration management with PowerShell DSC, Puppet, Chef or similar
Project or lab work with server & tooling platforms for multiple infrastructure services such as Windows Server 2022/2019, Linux Server distributions, Hyper-V, Azure Arc, MIT Kerberos, Active Directory, DNS, PowerShell/Python infrastructure-as-code scripting, data protection technologies, service monitoring, incident alarming, compliance, and other services
Basic understanding Windows Server OS-based operating systems distributions performing automated system installation and configuration, file system concepts, resource monitoring, user administration, package management, and process control & management