Location: US & India
Mandatory: 4+ Years of Experience
Notes:
US (8 openings): Remote candidates welcome; must be open to relocating to Bellevue, WA if required. Preference for local Bellevue candidates.
India (30 openings): Remote candidates welcome; must be open to relocating to Hyderabad if required. Preference for local Hyderabad candidates.
Azure Engineer-30 openings (Offshore-India), 8 (Onshore-US) & 11 openings (International-Canada)
Job Description:
The Azure Engineer is responsible for end‑to‑end onboarding, validation, and readiness of new Azure VM and hardware SKUs. This role owns host and guest configuration compliance, control‑plane onboarding, SKU qualification execution, and production readiness gating in close collaboration with Azure Compute, Networking, Storage, Fabric, and Capacity teams.
The engineer acts as a technical owner and integrator, ensuring that every SKU meets published specifications, reliability standards, and operational readiness before GA.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end‑to‑end onboarding of new Azure VM and hardware SKUs
- Integrate SKUs into Azure control plane and lifecycle management systems
- Validate host configuration including firmware, drivers, and platform settings
- Validate guest configuration including OS images, VM sizing, and features
- Ensure compliance with published Azure VM and hardware specifications
- Define and execute SKU qualification scope and test objectives
- Coordinate synthetic and scenario‑based validation activities
- Track SKU readiness, risks, and blockers across qualification gates
- Manage work items, test plans, and defects in Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Partner with compute, network, storage, fabric, and capacity teams
- Collaborate with hardware vendors to resolve platform and BOM issues
- Provide clear go/no‑go signals for SKU launch readiness
- Support private preview, public preview, and GA launch milestones
- Produce and maintain SKU onboarding and qualification documentation
- Drive first‑time quality and continuous improvement in SKU onboarding processes
Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Technical Experience:
- 4+ years of experience in Azure infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
- Strong understanding of Azure VM architecture, host/guest boundaries, and control plane concepts.
- Hands‑on experience with SKU onboarding, qualification, workflows.
- Experience in DevOps, SRE, test automation, or tooling engineering roles and bug management.
- Hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure or cloud-scale automation.
- Knowledge of server hardware platforms (CPU, memory, NICs, GPUs, storage).
- Experiance in cloud compute engineering, virtualization, or VM platform roles.
Experience in hardware platform engineering, server design, or SKU definition roles.
Understanding of firmware (BIOS/BMC), driver dependencies
Hands-on experience with Azure or hyperscale cloud hardware platforms.
Familaiarity with Compute hardware engineering.
Certifications in relevant technologies such as:
- Azure Certification
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Soft Skills:
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong organizational skills with a focus on meeting deadlines and achieving project goals.
