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Work type: On-site
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Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 35 days ago

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This role $209k

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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 1580 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 continuous improvement of Substrate, which powers Microsoft 365. Your daily responsibilities include leading high-severity incident responses, debugging complex issues, enhancing observability through telemetry and alerting, defining service level indicators (SLIs) and objectives (SLOs), conducting live site health reviews, and translating learnings into proactive tests and product fixes. You will also design reliability drills to validate resilience strategies and draft process documentation for incident management. This role requires expertise in software engineering, systems administration, and network engineering, with a preference for experience in large-scale service operations and data-driven practices.

Skills

Python Go Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Git Jenkins Terraform Ansible Bash Linux Windows Server SLI/SLO SRE DevOps Blameless Retrospectives One Microsoft Tooling

What you'll do

Lead high-severity incident response and debug complex issues to drive resolution.
Enhance telemetry, alerting, and dashboards to improve observability and reduce detection time.
Establish and track SLIs/SLOs for critical scenarios with engineering teams.
Translate business requirements into metrics and action during live site health reviews.
Design and execute reliability drills to validate resilience and recovery strategies.

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 resolution with clear communication.
Expertise in enhancing observability through telemetry, alerting, and dashboards using One Microsoft tooling.
Strong skills in defining and measuring reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs) for critical scenarios.
Experience translating business requirements into actionable metrics and driving live site health reviews.
Ability to design and execute resilience drills and translate learnings into proactive engineering solutions.

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