Microsoft is jumping on the train. With Australia's IT sector looking very promising, the software giant has decided to go all-in on the country's rosy future. According to Gartner, a top IT research and consultancy firm, Australia's IT sector is expected to grow by 5.8% and increase its spending to $117.7B in 2023.

Signs of this trend are now being confirmed by Microsoft's recent job openings in Jobbio. Most of these opportunities are IT-related, but some deal with other departments.

Let's discuss the jobs, the requirements, and the key responsibilities for these jobs so applicants can apply for them.

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Principal Program Manager, Regional Datacenter Supporting Functions

As part of the Americas Datacenter Operations team, the Principal Program Manager will manage all datacenter functional areas and disciplines (Logistics, IT, Networking, Critical Environment, Construction) while driving datacenter operations inputs to enable key business outcomes of better overall and broad-reaching cycle time performance, enhanced quality and associated measures, and advanced process maturity. 

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery of expected outcomes.  
• Develop and leverage operations expertise across the organization to represent and articulate all facets of the body of work across all functional areas. 
• Collaborate across CO+I and Engineering Group partners to drive consistency and predictability from an organizational readiness & resiliency perspective. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Understanding multi-state, multi-country, or federal-level labor laws and employment conditions & requirements. Awareness of IT Service Operations fundamentals and principles. 
• Project or program management certification(s) (e.g., Six Sigma, Kaizen, PMI, etc.). 
• 3+ years experience with reporting and data analysis systems and platforms (e.g., PowerBI).
• Practical knowledge of IT Infrastructure Library concepts and terminology - focusing on Change, Incident, Problem, and Service Delivery Management functions. 

Product Compliance Lead

The Product Compliance Lead will ensure that Microsoft's new video platform, Clipchamp, complies with government and international standards. 

Responsibilities:

• Design the strategy and program.
• Manage the deployment of security compliance remediations at scale for all Clipchamp apps.
• Engage with product squad members to ensure compliance requirements are addressed with a balanced approach to business outcomes, customer needs, and squad velocity.
• Establish reporting and monitoring needs.
• Work with the data team to publish scorecards via reporting programs.
• Build out 1st party and 3rd party program/platform strategy alongside key engineering, growth, and product management stakeholders. Acting as project manager supplier/platform migration for key post-acquisition activities.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience working with software development teams on security, privacy, or data protection compliance-related activities.
• Technical proficiency in the tools and application of accessibility guidelines such as MAS (Microsoft Accessibility Standards), WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.0, WCAG 2.1 & SEC (Secure Enterprise Content) 508, and ENG 301 549 standards, along with industry best practices.
• Program management experience at Microsoft for enterprise-grade products and experience integrating with ODSP (OneDrive and SharePoint). Education or related experience in technical fields such as computer science, engineering, and information management.
• Passes Microsoft's background check.

Principal Design Manager- Datacenter Engineering 

The Principal Design Manager - Datacenter Engineering handles the internal and external resources for delivering the Datacenter building, power, cooling, telecom, and controls infrastructure to align with the Microsoft Corporation datacenter capacity roadmap for the APAC region. 

Responsibilities:

• Support the network growth/upgrade refresh project pipeline across the APAC Region: Investigation and project scoping.
• Provide findings and internal reporting from a feasibility study, propose solution and program implementation management and oversee compliance to the execution process.
• Collaborate with on-site operations teams to perform Feasibility/Gap analysis to convert existing data center spaces to new/upgraded uses.  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Telecoms/Networks, or a related field. 
• Technical understanding of mission-critical environments.
• Led a team of architects and engineers in advanced engineering and operational processes and procedures related to large data center environments. 

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Datacenter Technician

As a Datacenter Technician, your success will be measured by demonstrating an applied understanding of standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacing, and/or decommissioning equipment.

Responsibilities:

• Comply with Data Center Services (DCS) business unit and service-level policies, procedures, and deadlines. 
• Complete assigned tickets efficiently and in alignment with expectations for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) per task type while meeting or exceeding established Service Level Agreements (SLAs), with minimal guidance from other technicians. 
• Prepare, stage, set up, and perform startups and shutdowns (e.g., racks, hard drives, switches) according to specific instructions provided via checklists, guides, standard protocols, and emails; assist and guide other technicians to complete challenging or complex tasks. 
• Perform post-execution quality checks and verifies that grounding, staging, labeling, and cabling are set up properly according to safety protocols, deployment standards, and planned Network Design Tasks (NDTs) 

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent and basic computer hardware and components knowledge AND 1+ year(s) experience supporting IT equipment or related technology.Ability to work shifts, including shift assignments during non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends, and/or holidays.
• Certified in CompTIA (A+, Server+, Network+), and Basic Structure Cabling (BSC).
• Passes Microsoft's background check.

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