Senior Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in the Cloud+Artificial intelligence (AI) Silver Team. This team will be responsible for deploying and operating a Secure Work Area, including the infrastructure for collaboration within an airgapped environment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.

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:

• Demonstrate expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, common dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.
• Develop an understanding of the code, features, and operations of specific products at scale.
• Research and maintain awareness of industry trends, advances in distributed systems and cloud technologies, new tools, and processes for maintaining and improving product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.
• Contribute to the implementation of new solutions within the team.
• Leverage technical expertise to suggest changes or add-ons to product features or code to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.
• Develop and test basic changes to optimize code and improve observability, reliability, and operability of platform components.
• Engage with product engineering teams through code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses.

Required Qualifications:

• 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 3+ years technical experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• 3+ years of experience with PowerShell, C#, or C++
• Experience working on large-scale distributed services with on-call responsibilities
• Ability to build and influence broadly towards common goals and priorities
• Ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle with solid project management and communication skills

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check
• U.S. citizenship verification

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year, with a different range applicable to specific work locations in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area (USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year).