About the role
Senior engineering manager role within Microsoft's Sovereign Cloud Program, leading a team to design, build, and support secure networking and operational infrastructure for National Partner Clouds (NPCs). Focus on secure cross-domain data transfer, Azure integration, compliance, and live-site reliability in high-security, mission-critical environments.
TechnologyOnsiteSoftware Engineering
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and care for a team of engineers to build and subsequently support key infrastructure in Microsoft's NPCs
- Building a happy, safe and effective team culture and supporting processes
- Building great partnerships with appropriate stakeholders (e.g. project managers and technical leads) to determine requirements and coach your team to do the same
- Delivering against project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders
- Coaching your team and driving their efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve requisite security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards
- Creating and assuring presence of evidence to demonstrate compliance
- Implementing appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value
- Building and maintaining communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers
- Acting as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations
- Coaching others and driving efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behaviour such as performance, reliability, availability, utility, and safety mechanisms
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, with at least 7 years of experience leading teams to design, develop and support products/solutions in complex IT environments
- Strong leadership skills, able to develop and grow a diverse team of individuals to collaborate as a cohesive team in delivering outcomes
- 3+ years' experience as a people manager
- Strong knowledge of the foundations of secure IT infrastructure, IP networking and system administration
- Knowledge or experience of security requirements, controls and solutions
- Strong sense of accountability, solid project management and outstanding communication skills
- Knowledge and experience of secure management environments utilising Active Directory, Group Policy, VPN, MECM, Windows Desktop deployments and application installations
- Knowledge and experience deploying/configuring and maintaining Network environments (both in physical platforms and Azure) including: L2/L3 Routing (BGP) & Switching, Firewalls (NAT & ACLs), IPSEC VPN
- Experience of being part of an international team working across multiple continents and cultures
- Experience of the challenges of system and service management in high security domains
- Knowledge of Cross Domain Solutions
- Security Clearance