
Mechanical Engineer (Cloud Operations & Innovation)
Milwaukee, WIJob$85–168K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation team delivers infrastructure for its online services, including Azure, Office 365, Bing, Xbox, and OneDrive. The Mechanical Engineer supports on-site data center operations and mechanical infrastructure, serves as a technical authority for large-scale mechanical systems, and collaborates on designs for new builds and upgrades. The role also supports cooling and backup electrical systems and supplier execution.
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Full job description
Overview Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO+I Mechanical Engineer, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide. With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider. 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
- Empowers a culture of safety, security, and compliance in all aspect of data center activities.
- Understands the design and functionality of your datacenter.
- Works alongside a team of industry professionals across the Information Technology (IT) and Critical Environments (CE) spectrum to support 24x7x365 on-site datacenter operations and mechanical infrastructures.
- Acts as the technical authority for on-site operations of large-scale mechanical systems and designs.
- Collaborates with the Operations and Design team to develop data center (DC) mechanical designs, starting from project conception to issue for construction (IFC) for new DC projects build outs and major infrastructure upgrades.
- Establishes and coordinates maintenance & safety procedures, maintaining redundant high-capacity cooling systems; to operating and supporting datacenter backup electrical systems (diesel generators, rotary UPS, etc.).
- Stewards vital infrastructure supporting deployments of Microsoft's online services.
- Assists with supplier selection and overseeing mechanical supplier execution.
- Learns, lives, and coaches the One Microsoft culture and values.
Qualifications Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years related technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
Mechanical Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $111,100 - $183,700 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
How this job compares
Set against the 7,739 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$85–168K/yr
- Wisconsin median$91–150K/yr56 salary ranges
- US median$106–160K/yr4,667 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $127K, is 5% above the Wisconsin median midpoint ($120K) — in the middle half of Mechanical Engineer salary ranges in Wisconsin.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 194 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in Wisconsin and 7,739 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Wisconsin
- Milwaukee Tool16 open
- Actalent9 open
- Jacobs7 open
- Experience
- Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (6,437 postings).
- Education
- 5,283 of the 7,739 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (68%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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