The Microsoft Azure Compute Program Management (PM) team drives horizontal customer experiences across Azure Compute Services. We are looking for a seasoned Principal Technical Program Manager to drive cross-team development for platform level features that power our Virtual Machine (VM) business, working across teams that span the breadth of Azure. We focus on the platform services that power Azure Boost, Azure VM, Azure Cloud Services, etc. You will have an opportunity to become a part of a strategic and innovative team, with Microsoft-wide impact, while helping us take on competitors such as Amazon and Google.

We’re looking for people passionate about building highly performant and scalable platforms that can partner with engineering and product managers distilling down complexity to drive complex projects. This work is in large part about defining and evolving the technical foundation of Azure Virtual Machines and Networking. It requires technical experience and depth with complex projects, project management across cross-functional stakeholders, as well as strategic thinking and problem solving.

To succeed in this role, you should be passionate about the Compute and Networking space, possess technical and analytical skills, cross-group collaboration skills, and a passion for customers by thinking end-to-end about the solutions you are building. You should be a creative leader with superior analytical abilities, have a reliable track record of delivery in a services environment with a can-do attitude.

You will be part of a team that will manage division-wide initiatives encompassing the Azure Host and Azure Host Components management, optimizing for Azure application lifecycle, availability, reliability, and scale. The role will be central to key Azure division initiatives on customer experience and platform competitiveness, and you’ll drive some of the areas in a services platform with scale and availability targets that don’t exist in the industry today.

This role is Microsoft onsite 3 days a week in Redmond, WA. By applying to this U.S. based position, relocation is not provided.

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