1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Engineer and operate highly available, secure, and resilient Active Directory services for critical identity and authentication scenarios.
- Improve reliability and operational excellence through automation, observability, telemetry, proactive engineering, and toil reduction.
- Build AI-assisted automation to accelerate troubleshooting, correlate operational signals, and improve identity infrastructure operations.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across Active Directory, Windows Server, and supporting infrastructure.
- Engineer and validate backup, recovery, disaster recovery, site failover, and regional failover capabilities.
- Collaborate with Enterprise IAM and partner engineering teams to advance SRE practices and scalable operational approaches.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with C#, Python, PowerShell, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: 2+ years of software development experience using C#, Python, PowerShell, or another programming language for automation, tools, or engineering solutions.
- Preferred: 2+ years of experience engineering, operating, or troubleshooting Windows Server and Active Directory Domain Services.
- Preferred: experience with logs, metrics, monitoring, telemetry, root-cause analysis, SRE principles, incident response, automation, reliability, resiliency, and safe production changes.
- Preferred: experience applying AI technologies such as LLMs, AI agents, Copilot, or intelligent automation.
- Preferred: experience with DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, Group Policy, replication, trusts, and Active Directory Sites and Services.
- Preferred: experience building automation, APIs, validation frameworks, self-service infrastructure tooling, AI-assisted or agentic solutions, monitoring, synthetic validation, telemetry correlation, diagnostics, or remediation.
- Preferred: experience with identity security, privileged access, vulnerability assessment, security monitoring and detection, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, or distributed infrastructure failover.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $102,100–$202,200 per year, with a separate range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for at least five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
- The role requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Microsoft
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.