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Job Summary:
Microsoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability improvements across multiple services. The role involves influencing service architecture, defining reliability strategies, and mentoring other SREs while ensuring compliance and security in regulated environments.
Responsibilities:
• Ensure 24x7 Service Reliability : Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in an on-call rotation, leading incident response and resolution to maintain uptime and performance for Microsoft’s most critical services.
• Support and Automate Deployments : Execute and improve manual operations and deployments for our products, while designing automation to scale and streamline those processes across environments.
• Build Scalable Systems : Develop automation for monitoring, alerting, debugging, and deployment to reduce manual effort and accelerate safe, reliable delivery.
• Drive Compliance and Security : Ensure systems meet Microsoft’s standards for security, privacy, and accessibility, especially when onboarding new technologies.
• Lead Post-Incident Learning : Conduct postmortems, share insights, and implement solutions that prevent recurrence—fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate Across Teams : Partner with engineering and product teams to align reliability goals with customer needs and deliver seamless user experiences.
• Stay Ahead Technically : Continuously invest in your technical growth to improve system availability, observability, and performance at scale.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR equivalent experience.
• Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements required for this role.
• This role requires access to Microsoft Government cloud environments, including GCC Moderate (GCCM), GCC High (GCCH), and Department of Defense (DoD) environments.
• The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate background investigations and customer screenings required for access to these environments.
• For access to GCCH and DoD environments, this role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorably adjudicated Tier 3 (T3) background investigation.
• For access to GCCM environments, this role requires the ability to meet Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) eligibility requirements.
• Candidates may be considered without currently holding these background investigations, provided they are eligible for and able to successfully obtain them.
• Candidates may begin work while required background investigations are in progress; however, failure to obtain or maintain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• In addition, this position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred:
• Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
Company:
Microsoft provides computer software, consumer electronics, cloud computing platforms, and digital enterprise systems. Founded in 1975, the company is headquartered in Redmond, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.