Product Manager II - Azure Networking

Azure Networking operates one of the largest networks in the world! Our Application Delivery product suite comprises of Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN), Azure Front Door, Azure Application Gateway and Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) products, focused on solving performance, reliability and scale needs for the largest internal Microsoft assets like Bing, LinkedIn, Azure as well as large enterprise customers. Our mission is to empower our customers to run their mission critical applications across multiple geographies and data centers with low latency, high scalability, high availability and best in class security. With 200+ points of presence in 100+ metros, we operate a globally distributed application delivery platform. You can make an immediate impact and delight customers.

As a Technical Program Manager II in Azure Front Door team, you will work with cross functional teams to shape the future of the product. You will define deeply technical requirements and scope to maximize performance and efficiency of our globally distributed platform. You will work with engineering to ensure we have the right system architecture, platform resiliency, telemetry and scalability to effectively deliver demands from the largest Azure customers. You will manage mission critical projects which will define how we route traffic at the rate of millions or requests per second destined across thousands of servers across the globe. You will also oversee critical project schedule and communicate project progress to leadership. This opportunity will allow you to learn deeply about large distributed system architecture, develop expertise in global scale acceleration and security, and accelerate your career growth.

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Responsibilities

• You will partner with Software Engineering to design technical solutions across feature areas. You’ll also identify risks and propose data-based mitigations.
• You will influence technical product strategy, identify risks and develop mitigation plan, define system priorities, and shape platform direction.
• You will design and track measurements for platform efficiency and resiliency improvements.
• You’ll define success criteria and create relationships for implementing features for complex cross-functional projects. You’ll coordinate and ensure alignment across organizations.
• You will deliver on roadmap for multiple feature groups, track project schedules, develop staging and implementation plan, and manage governance programs.
• You will drive continuous improvements by validating use cases. You’ll also lead teams to partner with other departments to collect performance metrics, drive customer support, and lead direct customer engagements.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience
• Experience delivering complex features from inception to completion.
• Experience communicating, critical thinking, and hands on troubleshooting
• Experience with complexity and ability to generate clarity in a highly ambiguous environment
  

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with content delivery networks, load balancers or application security products like WAF, Firewall, DDoS protection
• Experience working with cloud service providers like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform or other large, distributed platforms
  
  

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