Site Reliability Engineer CTJ POLY

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Azure Silver and Sovereign Team as part of the Azure Data Transfer (ADT) team. Azure Data Transfer enables secure access and data transfer between enclaves and supports multiple transfer and access patterns for highly regulated this role you will apply SRE principlesavailability latency performance efficiency change management and incident responseto help ensure ADT is dependable at scale.

We are looking for engineers to join a fast-paced team and solve complex reliability challenges in mission-critical distributed systems spanning data transmission across clouds. Our team works across all facets of isolated system engineering and is deeply involved in defining and improving service health through SLIs/SLOs and error budgets building automation to reduce toil strengthening observability (logs metrics traces) reducing systemic latency validating and transforming data and optimizing throughput and capacity. You will build deploy and operate systems that enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by customers in highly secured and regulated environments meeting strict security policy and assurance requirements for public and private sector customers.

• Owns reliability architecture and end-to-end service understanding (dependencies failure modes and customer journeys) for distributed systems at scale. Defines and improves service health via SLIs/SLOs error budgets and well-defined operational readiness criteria. Drives cross-team reliability reviews and recommends design changes runbooks and safe rollout/rollback strategies that improve availability latency performance and efficiency while managing cost.
• Maintains deep current expertise in cloud reliability practices and the evolving technology landscape. Drives adoption of new platform capabilities and operational patterns (e.g. progressive delivery resilience testing chaos engineering where appropriate). Mentors engineers through design reviews incident walkthroughs and knowledge sharing to raise the reliability bar across related services.
• Implements reliable scalable and high-performance changes using SRE practices (progressive delivery feature flags where applicable safe rollouts/rollbacks). Owns implementation and rollback plans validates operational readiness and reduces toil through automation self-healing and standardized playbooks.
• Leverages telemetry and production signals to identify reliability risks and recurring failure patterns then ships configuration changes code fixes or automation to address root causes. Expands infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling so teams can manage platforms and services safely and repeatably through code and policy.
• Builds and improves observability (metrics logs traces dashboards alerts) and uses it to detect diagnose and prevent incidents. Defines actionable alerting reduces noise and ensures instrumentation supports SLO reporting and rapid troubleshooting. Develops automation to validate telemetry pipelines and to enable automated mitigation and safer incident response.
• Participates in on-call rotations and leads response for complex high-impact incidents by establishing incident command assessing impact coordinating responders and driving mitigations to restore service within SLOs. Produces and contributes to blameless postmortems with corrective and preventative actions (CPAs) tracks them to completion and implements automation and guardrails to prevent recurrence.
• Applies secure-by-design and compliance requirements to operations monitoring and automation (least privilege auditability change control and data handling). Partners with security privacy and compliance teams to identify gaps prioritize fixes and implement automated controls and detection to prevent repeated violations
• Embody our cultureand values

Required / Minimum Qualifications:

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

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:

• 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 requirementsare requiredpre-offer and post-hirefor this role. Failure tomaintainor obtain theappropriate 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 8 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering service engineering or systems engineering
  OR equivalent experience.
• 3 years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems
• Experience building automation with Ansible and developing/operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps GitHub Actions) to deliver reliable repeatable deployments.
• Expertise in problem solving and analyzing distributed systems and critical production service environments
• Expertise in Linux specifically Rocky 9 Redhat Mariner or similar in throughput management troubleshooting and security hardening

Site Reliability Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 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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