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Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Microsoft

Location

United States

Type

Full-time

Posted

11/4/2026

Compensation

$119,800 - $261,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202696.0% approval-64% YoY
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Job description

As a Senior Cloud Network Engineer in the Azure Dedicated Team, you will design and operate Network Fabrics for traditional ethernet networks and back-end networks like RDMA and Infiniband. Your role will focus on creating reliable and resilient designs to support the integration of AI workloads into Azure. You will collaborate with customers, vendors, and colleagues to produce high-quality designs that manage significant traffic levels. This position offers an opportunity to enhance your skills in large-scale networks while addressing demanding customer needs.

Requirements

  • Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR Master's Degree in the same fields with 3+ years of technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR Bachelor's Degree in the same fields with 4+ years of technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
  • 1+ year(s) experience delivering network designs into production and experience with live site accountability for a network.
  • 1+ year(s) experience in a large scale network ecosystem where you have owned design and end-to-end standards for delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Drive partnerships with 3rd parties to ensure seamless integrations of various network stacks and topologies with Azure's networks.
  • Triages, troubleshoots, repairs, and root causes service impact issues in physical network components and features.
  • Collaborate with teams to develop reliable, secure, scalable, and high-performance network designs.
  • Independently produce design documents and implementation plans for network migrations.
  • Lead design, network/code, test plan, and security reviews to identify risks and prevent bugs prior to production release.

Benefits

  • Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Microsoft Corporation

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

503

FY2026

Approval rate

96.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

3,062

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.7%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-64%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-83%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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