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Work type: On-site
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Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 53 days ago

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This role $177k

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 1577 open roles on FindRole.

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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Incident Response SRE team at Microsoft, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining the resilience and reliability of Substrate and MSAI by preventing outages and swiftly resolving incidents. Your day-to-day responsibilities include leading high-severity incident responses, debugging complex issues, enhancing observability through telemetry and alerting tools, defining service level indicators (SLIs) and objectives (SLOs), and conducting live site health reviews to translate business requirements into actionable metrics. You will also draft policies for incident management and execute reliability drills to validate recovery strategies. This role requires expertise in software engineering, systems administration, and network engineering, with a preference for experience in cloud-scale services and familiarity with tools like One Microsoft.

Skills

Python Go Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform PostgreSQL MySQL SLI/SLO One Microsoft tooling Blameless retrospectives DevOps methodologies Infrastructure as Code Terraform

What you'll do

Lead high-severity incident response and debug complex issues to drive rapid resolution.
Enhance telemetry, alerting, and dashboards using One Microsoft tooling for actionable insights.
Establish and track SLIs/SLOs with engineering teams for critical scenarios.
Translate business requirements into metrics during live site health review meetings.
Design and execute reliability drills to validate resilience and recovery strategies.
Draft process and policy documentation for incident preparation, response, and prevention.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience (8+ years) in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
Proven ability to lead high-severity incident response and drive rapid resolution.
Strong skills in enhancing observability through telemetry, alerting, and dashboards.
Experience defining and measuring service reliability with SLIs/SLOs.
Capability to translate business requirements into metrics and actionable insights.
Expertise in designing and executing resilience drills and strategies.
Proficiency in drafting process and policy documentation for incident management.

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