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Microsoft is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for our Azure Silver Hybrid Networking Team, a role pivotal in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of our critical network infrastructure. In this senior position, you'll be deeply involved in the seamless operation of Azure's networking services, essential for our global client base. You will collaborate with a diverse team, including developers, network engineers, datacenter technicians, and customers, to rapidly debug and resolve complex issues. Your expertise will contribute to continuous improvements in our network systems, preventing recurring problems and addressing common challenges across the Azure software stack.

This role offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain comprehensive knowledge of Azure's cloud architecture and maintenance, deepening your understanding of a wide range of services and technologies. Your efforts in automation and strategic analysis will be crucial in enhancing our infrastructure's efficiency and alignment with business goals. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft, you will be part of a team that embodies our values of growth, innovation, and collaboration, working towards our mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. 

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

• Enhancing customer facing experience by proactive alerting based on utilization, trends, resource health, etc.

• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary. Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team. 

• Engineering Excellence: Improve developer tools, contribute to automation in production, ensure compliance with security and privacy, and stay current with industry developments.

• Develop and deliver Reliably training materials and documentation. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify user requirements, incorporating feedback and actionable metrics into future designs.

• Understanding of the distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.

• Develops code, scripts, systems, or platforms that automate moderately complex but repetitive operations processes (e.g., monitoring, alerting, deploying products and updates, debugging) at scale; reviews existing automation code and scripts to evaluate reusability, extendibility, and scalability within an organization. 

• Embody our culture and values .

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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 in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.

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 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.

• 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/Additional Qualifications:

• 7+ 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 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 Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

• Demonstrated coding design skills.

• Demonstrated knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures and distributed algorithms.

• Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization is a plus.

• Knowledge of distributed systems is a plus.

Site Reliability Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .