Service Engineer IC4

Microsoft; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Service Operations Manager to join the international Azure Platform Operations Support team. This role involves driving operational excellence for sovereign cloud services, collaborating with stakeholders, and enhancing Azure's operational strategy. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in IT services and exceptional problem-solving skills, fostering innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years technical experience in software or systems engineering.
• In-depth knowledge of systems and service management.
• Experience managing complex IT environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive the operational model for the Sovereign cloud.
• Design and support incident management workflows.
• Lead alignment across sovereign clouds for compliance.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Technical Expertise

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

Kusto

Job description

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Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for Senior Service Operations Manager to join the international Azure Platform Operations Support team focused on operations support and integration between Sovereign and public clouds.

Are you interested in learning and driving the growth of Azure cloud services at Microsoft? Are you looking for unlimited growth opportunities? Does creating, shaping, and growing a new kind of cloud from the ground up excite you? Do you have a passion for technology and an obsession for customers? Does strategic, global impact get you excited?

Microsoft is building Azure to be the world’s computer to tackle the hardest problems on the planet. Core to the success of this mission is that every customer, in every industry, can adopt Azure to further their mission. The Azure Platform Operations Team is at the centre of this mission, supporting hyperscale cloud services around the world to support the delivery of Sovereign clouds for some of our most complex regulated customers.

Azure is seeking a talented, highly motivated person to drive the operational model for the Sovereign cloud. This individual will work closely with stakeholders and Azure Global Leadership to drive the delivery of these clouds and interfacing with our customer needs.

This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to build and leverage your strong understanding of Azure, Microsoft services and/or technical approaches to further develop and evolve the cloud operations strategy for Azure.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

As a Service Operations Manager, you are an Individual Contributor (IC) who will be responsible for being an expert in how we build and operate sovereign clouds, work with stakeholders to understand their needs, help define the operational framework to ensure delivery of standard operations model across different sovereign clouds, support our partner Cloud Ownership Entities to improve their Azure Operations, and drive continuous improvement actions for Azure Operations.

Operations Support: Design and support Incident management workflows across cloud boundaries without compromising security or efficiency. Escalate Incident/Problem management cases, complete post incident reviews and provide coordination between Azure Public and Sovereign Service teams.

Operations Enablement: Provide Knowledge Management, Operations training, and leadership. Develop solutions to provide clear and concise monitoring and system management. Seek and drive opportunities to demonstrate continuous service improvement.

Resolves issues with services, minimizes customer impact, and documents solutions that inform ongoing improvements and prevent the recurrence of similar issues.

Operations Evolution: Leading on cloud excellence, driving alignment across all Sovereign Clouds to ensure continuing compliance and driving down operational costs. Validates use-case and scenario outcomes, and performance targets that are being achieved. Drives continuous quality improvements of the delivery.

Creating relationships: Driving orchestration and integration efforts for the development and implementation process of multiple feature areas for large and complex cross functional projects with internal teams and external partners.

Partnering: Working with engineering teams to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for multiple feature areas. Partners closely with internal engineering teams to conduct root cause analyses, share end-to-end expertise in services, and to mitigate and resolve issues.

Collaborates: Track, coordinate, and communicate end-to-end project schedules for multiple feature areas.

Manages: The governance of programs and processes to ensure that specific performance requirements and standards are met throughout the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering
• OR equivalent experience.
• In-depth knowledge of the challenges of system and service management.
• Multiple years of hands-on experience in providing operations support to complex IT environments.
• Ability to build and influence broadly towards common goals and priorities.
• Recent experience working with Azure or equivalent hyperscale cloud technologies.
• Firm sense of accountability for end-to-end outcomes, with strong communication skills.
• Large distributed IT environments in an operational role.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise experience in problem solving and analysingdistributed systems and critical production service environments.
• ITIL certification V3 or above.
• Experience in DevOps lifecycle.
• Experience in Kusto / data visualisation.
• PMP / Agile PM certification, or experience working in an agile project team is considered a plus.
  
  

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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