Foundational Site Reliability Engineer

at  Microsoft

Our team is looking for an Foundational Site Reliability Engineer to join a team that is the bedrock to every cloud offering at Microsoft. We provide isolated production identities and tooling for users and security groups that are reliable, highly available, and secure. Our team’s vision is to “Provide a secure, robust, and extensible identity platform for both on-premises and cloud first solutions for managing all production resources.” Our services are the first services in and last out of any cloud. We supply highly dependable, redundant, resilient, and hardened identities to Microsoft engineers use for cloud buildout, management, and recovery of services at all architectural layers of the Azure technology stack. Based on Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), identity is the primary security perimeter for our production environment. Our mission is to improve the availability, latency, performance and security of the Identity systems behind Microsoft’s cloud. Like traditional operations, we keep important revenue-critical systems up and running, even when natural disasters, bandwidth outages and configuration problems occur. Unlike traditional operations groups, we identify and address these software problems directly thru software improvements, innovative machine learning and systems automation.
As a Foundational Site Reliability Engineer, you will provide leadership, direction and accountability for strategic application architecture plans, system design, and implementation. You will have opportunities to independently determine and develop architectural approaches and solutions, conduct business reviews, document current systems in the portfolio, and operate our production services. Collaboration skills will be required working closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal stakeholders and external customers and users. You will identify and tackle high value engineering & software improvements using your experience in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and scalable system approaches.
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.

REQUIRED/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 3+ years industry experience with PowerShell scripting/programming languages

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

ADDITIONAL OR PERFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
  Site Reliability Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 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 $105,600 - $174,600 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 will accept applications for the role until July 1, 2024.

• Proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network architecture.
• Designs components of a service delivery system that defines tools, hardware, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation, resulting in complete system that supports service delivery and meets KPIs.
• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Microsoft’s Identity services.
• Designs process or technology solutions that identify and resolve platform, system, deployment, and environmental issues prior to production release, and ensure an on-time release and measureable improvements against KPIs.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Communicates data and information among stakeholders and applies advanced diagnostic experience during service issues to restore service with minimal disruption to the customer and business.
• Collaborates with Development, Test and PM counterparts to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into components of a service architecture and operability and customer scenarios that meet compliance standards and KPIs such as quality, cost, and customer expectation.
• Conduct periodic on call duties.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values