Principal Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Secret Cleared Environments

Microsoft

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 87 days ago
Closes: Sep 28, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Principal Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Secret Cleared Environments

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As a Principal Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Microsoft Substrate, you will lead a team responsible for building and maintaining highly reliable cloud services in regulated environments. Your day-to-day involves developing senior engineers, ensuring operational excellence through robust telemetry and disciplined engineering practices, and embedding reliability early in the design phase. You will manage incident response, drive continuous improvement using SLOs and SLIs, and collaborate with security and compliance teams to deliver durable outcomes. The role requires expertise in software engineering fundamentals, automation, and AI-assisted techniques for operational excellence at scale. Ideal candidates have a strong background in cloud or distributed systems and experience working in regulated environments, along with the ability to obtain necessary government clearances such as Tier 3 and CJIS eligibility.

Skills

Python C# Kubernetes Terraform AWS Azure CI/CD PostgreSQL Docker Prometheus Grafana GitLab DevOps SRE Microservices REST JSON YAML OAuth TLS Zero Trust Security GDPR SOC 2 NIST 800-53

What you'll do

Lead and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers to ensure operational excellence and reliability.
Own the operational health and reliability of Substrate services in regulated environments, ensuring high availability and compliance.
Drive incident management and post-incident reviews, focusing on systemic fixes and long-term resilience.
Serve as an actively engaged on-call engineer, leading incident response and driving durable engineering improvements.
Embed reliability, security, and compliance considerations early in service design and deployment decisions.
Build strong cross-functional relationships to deliver compliant and auditable reliability outcomes.

What we're looking for

Doctorate or Master's degree in Computer Science/IT plus relevant technical experience (2+ years for PhD, 3+ years for MS).
Experience leading and developing a team of Site Reliability Engineers.
Strong background in software engineering fundamentals and operational excellence.
Ability to obtain and maintain Tier 3 background investigation for sensitive environments.
Proven track record operating services in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.
Expertise in driving incident management, SLOs, SLIs, and operational metrics.

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