The Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering (ICE) group is an exciting and fast evolving engineering group within Microsoft. ICE's mission is to optimize and deliver industry leading cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services used by our Customers around the world. Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, which supports over 200 cloud services including Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive, etc... is growing at an incredible pace. Within ICE, the Capacity Planning team is responsible for always knowing the ideal quantity of infrastructure resources (datacenters, power, racks, servers, network devices, bandwidth, IP addresses, etc...) employing near real-time mechanisms to achieve the planned resource utilization at scale. We strive to deliver a eco system that employs machine learning, change modelling, automation of business processes and logistics, real-time data collection and analysis, prioritization of resource allocations, and other
Job Responsibilities include but are not limited to: - This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility. - You will collaborate closely with multiple teams across Microsoft to deliver key planning solutions and the technology to support them. - Lead design and implementation of the future architecture for highly scalable, durable, low latency capacity planning system. - Drive innovations leveraging big data, ML techniques and distributed systems to deliver business results. - Build an effective and agile development organization using industry leading best practices. - Lead the definition of
Skills and Qualifications : - BS in Computer Science or equivalent. - 8+ years of experience leading design and development of software platforms, with at least 3 years in distributed/cloud services. - 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer - 2+ years of experience in leading an engineering team. Preferred: - Ability to solve business problems at scale. - Proven track-record of design and technical accomplishments. - Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques. - Strong problem solving and communication skill (including upwards communication). - Solid track-record