Principal, Azure Hardware Validation Lead at Microsoft
Principal, Azure Hardware Validation Lead Details
March 5, 2019, 11:17 p.m.
Engineering
People Manager
Full-Time
Redmond, WA
The Cloud HW
At Microsoft, our cloud services' infrastructure supports more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses around the world every day. We opened our first data center in 1989 and since then we have invested over $15 billion in our cloud infrastructure to support the growing customer demand for our cloud services. Do you want to be at the center of the next largest IT industry? Are you looking to enhance your expertise and grow within a dynamic team of world-leading cloud professionals? If so, then you are looking in the right place! The Cloud HW Platform Engineering (CHPE) team within Azure is responsible for delivering leading edge hardware that sets the standard in the industry for performance, reliability, and availability for our global customer base. We are looking for an experienced leader to transform our hardware delivery process as we move to hardware as a service for our customers.
Architect a strategy to measure quality and identify issues as part of release qualification of hardware produced by the Cloud Hardware Platform Engineering (CHPE) team. Design a qualification strategy that bridges the gap from validating an individual device to system validation of a pre-production cluster; scale to racks of devices then clusters of racks for different product portfolios. Focus is on measuring availability, reliability and performance and identifying issues using simulated workloads and extending to customer workloads fitting a pre-production cluster. Results should be characterizable
Bachelor's required, MS desired Experience with lean, six sigma, agile or equivalent operational excellence frameworks highly desirable • 7+ years' experience managing engineers and data-scientists with demonstrated ability to lead in a highly collaborative team • 7+ years' of hands-on experience (testing, validation, design and development or sustaining) with x86 Industry Standard Server or related products from OEMs or ODM Partners is a plus. • 5+ years hands on Programming skills with C, C++ or C# and scripting skills with PowerShell, Python or Perl is essential. •5+ years' experience supporting