
Principal Infrastructure Planner
Collaborate with technology providers, understand their portfolios, drive requirements, partner with internal stakeholders in engineering and business groups and drive innovation into Azure’s next generation data centers. Collaborate with data center engineering teams, strategize, and project infrastructure needs 2-5 years in the future, influence next generation data center development, and develop recommendations and strategy that give a unique edge to Azure hardware infrastructure. Partner with advanced architecture teams in pathfinding and productizing emerging technology trends and innovation. Perform roadmap scenario modeling, financial modeling, and market analysis for the recommended HW platform, infrastructure direction, factoring in performance, features, cost, and time-to-market tradeoffs. Drive internal alignment on commodity technology platform plan of record. Recommend internal and external process improvements and excellence conversations cross functionally to ensure we have optimized processes and aligned across partner teams.
10+ years industry experience in CPU, Memory or Storage technology development.
Deep Knowledge of cloud datacenter architecture and data center infrastructure
Experience working in HW Infrastructure Engineering Groups
Ability to work in an ambiguous business environment with competing business tasks.
Familiarity and previous experience developing programs through phase gate process
Project Management
Time Management Skills
TCO analysis
CPU architecture
Product Planning
Deep technical skills
Cloud datacenter architecture
Detail Oriented
Driven and self-motivated
Flexibility/Adaptability
Process Oriented
Verbal and Written Communication
Multi tasker
According to JobzMall, the average salary range for a Principal Infrastructure Planner in Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA is $128,000 to $157,000 per year. This range is based on the salary data of similar job titles from various employers. The actual salary will depend on factors such as experience, qualifications, and the specific job role.
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