Microsoft Work Values

Daily Duties at Microsoft:

Manage pre-production environment of approximately 1000 servers for Microsoft’s Extranet team, with the following duties: 1. Gather and report capacity information to ensure the business units have the necessary rack space, power and cooling to host all of their servers/applications. 2. Work with security, management and operations teams to ensure all applicable policies are applied and enforced in the environment. 3. Manage technical support team that provides tier 2/3 support for the environment. 4. Provide off-hours, on-call support for break-fix issues. 5. Plan, oversee and implement infrastructure projects and network design changes, and extensions of the environment to other locations (regionally, nationally and globally). 6. Work with customers to determine the needs of their applications and develop solutions that will meet those needs. 7. Manage and support F5 BigIP/3DNS hardware, which provides load-balancing and redundancy for internet facing applications both locally and regionally.

What they like about Microsoft:

The social vibrance of a hiring firm is very important to you. Your ability to make and maintain friendships there is a critical part of your decision. You would likely be dissatisfied with a workplace that is quiet, cold, or otherwise not particularly social. When you investigate a new hiring company, ask recruiters, managers, and potential co-workers about the social life and opportunities there. This is especially important when you are relocating; moving dramatically alters your social sphere both inside and outside the workplace.

Tags

Microsoft, Data center, Windows, Migration, Infrastructure, Server, Extranet, EMC

Skills

P&L responsibilities, Software Implementation, Requirements Analysis & Specification, Leadership , Operations, Large scale server migrations

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Microsoft: