Principal Software Automation Engineer

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are seeking a Principal Software Automation Engineer to define, scale, and govern automation standards across HPC infrastructure, operational services, and Azure-connected platforms. This is a high-impact player/coach role responsible for setting the technical vision of the Automation Center of Excellence (CoE), serving as the organization’s escalation point for complex automation challenges, and growing a high-performing automation team as scope and funding mature. The role combines hands-on delivery with strategic leadership to reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and accelerate delivery across on-prem HPC and cloud-integrated environments supporting Silicon Development.