Hardware Engineer II

Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. Characterizes the performance of hardware components and platforms, and optimizes systems for performance, cost savings, and reliability. Builds and improves automation to aid in performance characterization, lab and scale testing, and onboarding of new hardware platforms. Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Creates and implements code for Azure offerings, reusing code as applicable. Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field 1+ years of experience with system architecture/hardware, operating systems, networking, and large-scale distributed system Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience. 1+ years of experience with vendors, customers, and internal partners in a cloud environment and defining, validating, and managing hardware virtualization technologies 1+ years of experience with mentoring/managing team members. Experience in improving efficiency, creating clarity, and driving cross team collaboration to achieve results.