Site Reliability Engineer II CTJ Secret

Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Microsofts most critical customers Were looking for a Site Reliability Engineer II with the right mix of software development on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision design and deliver Office 365 government cloud service offerings.

Office 365 is at the center of Microsofts cloud first devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange SharePoint and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsofts largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality security reliability availability and performance.

At Microsoft we can offer you a solid team exciting challenges and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users.

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership direction and accountability for application architecture system design and end-to-end implementation.

Internal CSP alignment: This role aligns to the Microsoft Career Stage Profile (CSP) for Site Reliability Engineering IC3. The role emphasizes independent execution and service ownership using telemetry and automation to drive availability reliability performance efficiency observability and operational improvements.

As a Site Reliability Engineer II you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development complexity analysis and scalable system design. Solid collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.

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Technical Knowledge and Domain-Specific Expertise

• Demonstrates expertise in distributed systems design interactions between cloud technology layers and components common dependencies at scale and the code that defines infrastructures. Can identify and recommend configurations optimal of cloud technology solutions and modify the code base that defines systems or cloud technologies to improve the reliability and operability of supported products with minimal guidance from other engineers.
• Develops an understanding of the code features and operations of specific products at scale as required to contribute to incremental improvements in product availability reliability efficiency observability and/or performance; participates in on-boarding code/design reviews and regular meetings with the engineering teams that develop and/or manage those products.
• Researches and maintains an awareness in industry trends advances in distributed systems and cloud technologies new tools and/or processes for maintaining and improving product availability reliability efficiency observability and/or performance. Contributes to the implementation of new solutions within their team by identifying ways they can be applied to solve persistent problems.

Contributions to Development and Design

• Leverages technical expertise in large scale distributed systems and specific products as well as objective insights drawn from analyses of production telemetry data to suggest changes or add-ons to product features or code to improve the availability reliability efficiency observability and performance of product components or features supported by their team.
• Develops and tests basic changes to optimize code and improve the observability reliability and operability of a defined range of platform system or product components or features with direction from other engineers.
• Engages with product engineering teams by participating code/design reviews regular meetings on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles; leverages technical expertise on underlying systems/platforms and insights drawn from engagements with product engineering teams and telemetry analyses to propose potential improvements in code base and designs across components and features of one or more products.

Driving Operational Excellence

• Independently develops code or scripts that automate the performance of repetitive and easily scalable operations processes (e.g. monitoring alerting deploying products and updates) across components and features of products operating at scale.
• Leverages technical expertise and telemetry analysis across a range of components and/or features to identify patterns and opportunities to implement configuration and data changes for one or more platforms systems or products in production using code tooling and automation.
• Identifies opportunities to leverage existing tools and automation to enable product engineering teams to increase the velocity in which they can reliably and safely implement changes in production; monitors the effects of changes across multiple components or features within a single platform or system.
• Designs develops and maintains telemetry pipelines and monitoring tools that detail operations metrics (e.g. availability reliability performance efficiency) of product components and features operating at scale. Independently performs analyses using existing tools and/or models to identify insights and shares them with product engineering teams to directly contribute to improvements in product development and/or operations; monitors the impact of changes on operations metrics (e.g. Time-to-X).
• Independently uses existing tools and/or models to troubleshoot problems or flaws affecting the availability reliability performance and/or efficiency of components and features; proposes solutions that will resolve and prevent recurring issues and brings them to the attention of their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and/or product engineering teams.
• Responds to incidents during regular on-call rotations by identifying the level of impact troubleshooting issues and deploying appropriate fixes to resolve root cause(s); alerts product teams and owners to major customer impacting issues and escalates resolution of highly impactful issues affecting multiple components or features to other engineers or engineering teams as needed. Shares details related to incidents and their resolution through post-mortem reports and during regular review meetings.
• Develops alerts and instrumentation across components and features to monitor product capacity and resource demands and analyze telemetry data using existing capacity planning models; draws insights from analyses of capacity and resource data to optimize component and feature code to manage resources and capacity across limited range of use conditions and system parameters.
• Utilizes insights from performance and resource monitoring tools to identify whether there is a need to optimize the efficiency of component and feature code or if changes to compute resources are required; models the predicted effect of changes to code and/or compute resources across components or features to document the efficacy of proposed solutions.
• Shares insights and Preferred practices that can be applied to improve development and operations of system platform or product components and features by participating in code/design reviews incident drills and debriefs and regular meetings as well as interactions with more experienced SREs and members of product engineering teams.

Additional Duties

• Design develop and deliver the required software engineering to serve and protect O365 government clouds.
• Own deployment availability reliability performance and customer escalation targets for sovereign environments.
• Proactively identify and reduce issues through design testing and implementation of software-based solutions.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Program Management partners to translate customer business and technical requirements into architectural designs and feature releases.
• Drive efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery maturity and scalability.
• Work within a highly skilled team of engineers to deliver revolutionary improvements to the cloud and scale them.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 2 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration
  • OR Masters Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 1 year(s) technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft customer and/or
government security screening requirements as required for this role. These requirements include but
are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Ability
  to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for
  this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening
  requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: 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.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud
  background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due
  to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically this position supports United States federal
  state and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain
  citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal
  requirement citizenship will be verified via a valid passport or other approved documents or
  verified US government Clearance.

This position is part of a team providing operational coverage for Microsoft Government cloud environments. Engineers participate in a scheduled shift rotation designed to provide extended business-hour coverage. Shift assignments may include alternate schedules such as four 10-hour workdays or rotating coverage across multiple daily operating windows.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 3 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration
  • OR Bachelors 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.
• 2 years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.

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Site Reliability Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102100 - $202200 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 $133800 - $219200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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.

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