Microsoft

Site Reliability Engineer II - CTJ - Secret

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1 day ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deliver software improvements for Office 365 government cloud services.
  • Own deployment, availability, reliability, performance, and customer escalation targets for sovereign environments.
  • Develop automation, monitoring, alerting, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines for large-scale systems.
  • Analyze production telemetry, capacity data, and performance metrics to identify and implement reliability and efficiency improvements.
  • Troubleshoot incidents, participate in on-call rotations, deploy fixes, conduct root-cause analysis, and produce post-mortem reports.
  • Collaborate with product engineering and program management teams on architecture, code reviews, design reviews, and feature releases.
  • Reduce recurring operational issues through software-based solutions, testing, automation, and scalable system design.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 2+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration; or a master’s degree and 1+ year of such experience; or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree and 3+ years of relevant experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 2 years of technical experience with large-scale cloud or distributed systems is preferred.
  • Candidates must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance and be able to satisfy required Microsoft, customer, and government security screenings.
  • U.S. citizenship verification is required because of citizenship-based legal restrictions.
  • Candidates must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Benefits

  • The role includes scheduled shift rotations for extended business-hour operational coverage, which may include four 10-hour workdays or rotating coverage across daily operating windows.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional information is provided through Microsoft’s careers benefits and pay page.

Categories

Site Reliability
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10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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