Overview As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Azure Networking, you will gain marketable experience leading a team responsible for massive scale data centre network architecture, design, network infrastructure automatic management, software defined networking and high scalable/available/reliable distributed service design/implementation. Microsoft Azure is expanding its team in Australia and is looking for dynamic individuals to manage devops teams. The ideal candidate would be adaptable and able to become a subject matter expert across a variety of services and systems throughout their career. The team develops and operates highly scalable software supporting Azure Networking including automations that maintain the configuration of our network. Many software engineers are involved in all aspects of the life cycle including software design, implementation, deployment and operations. Others are involved in advanced monitoring, analysis, and alerting for security events. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities The purpose of this role: Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g. project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams. Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Optimises, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Guides team to drive multiple groups' project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g. project managers). Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations. To be able to identify root causes of network issues and system performance bottlenecks, propose simple and implementable technical solutions and actively reach out to customers to solve their pain points.