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Microsoft · 6 days ago

Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Reston, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $275K/yr

5+ years exp

Microsoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will provide technical leadership in ensuring the dependability of Azure Local services, mentor a team of engineers, and collaborate with various teams to improve product reliability and performance.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

You lead a team that maintains Azure Local Cloud Services reliability including deployment, availability, security, performance and customer satisfaction for sovereign environments

You collaborate with Engineering and Program Management partners to proactively identify and reduce customer issues through design, testing and implementation of software-based solutions

You expand end-to-end technical expertise in the architecture, code, features, operations, and comprehensive use scenarios of products to drive continuous improvements. You drive teams across organizations to develop solutions to intelligently identify contributing factors and points of failure affecting availability, reliability, and performance of the product

You support customer deployments and use of Azure Local and Azure Local disconnected operations

You participate in on-call rotations and ensure teams across organizations are equipped to respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations. You keep relevant stakeholders and leadership apprised of details related to incident impact and status of resolution

You mentor a highly skilled team of engineers driving their growth and development, helping them execute projects that deliver revolutionary improvements to the cloud and scale them

Qualification

Cloud ComputingSite Reliability EngineeringSoftware EngineeringNetwork EngineeringSystems AdministrationPowershellPythonC#Windows ServerTroubleshootingLog AnalysisMentoringCollaboration

Required

Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ 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 are required for this role

The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role

Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination

This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements

You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions

Preferred

Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 12+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR equivalent experience

7+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems

5+ years of experience with managing reliability of mission critical production workloads which requires coordinating with number of partners and teams

5+ years of programming experience with Powershell, Python, C#, or similar

5+ years experience in troubleshooting/analyzing logs and metrics

5+ years experience administering Windows Server (2016+) Hyper-V, storage, networking, and security capabilities