Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Secret Cleared Environments

Microsoft

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 99 days ago
Closes: Sep 16, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Secret Cleared Environments

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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on Microsoft Substrate, you will lead reliability improvements and solve complex operational issues across critical services like Exchange Online and M365 Copilot, ensuring high availability and security at global scale. Your responsibilities include acting as a Designated Responsible Individual in an on-call rotation, automating deployments, building scalable monitoring systems, driving compliance for regulated environments, conducting post-incident reviews, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance system observability and performance. You will work with technologies such as Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, and various scripting languages like Python or PowerShell, while continuously investing in your technical growth to address the unique challenges of sovereign cloud environments requiring specialized security clearances including Tier 3 and CJIS eligibility.

Skills

Python Kubernetes Terraform AWS CI/CD PostgreSQL Docker Prometheus Grafana Azure Git Linux Security Compliance DevOps M365 Copilot Exchange Online

What you'll do

Ensure 24x7 service reliability by leading incident response and resolution.
Design automation to scale and streamline deployment processes across environments.
Develop monitoring, alerting, debugging, and deployment systems to reduce manual effort.
Drive compliance and security for services in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.
Conduct postmortems to prevent recurrence of incidents and foster continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of technical experience.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of technical experience.
Ability to obtain and maintain Tier 3 background investigation for GCCH and DoD environments.
Eligibility for Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) requirements for GCCM environments.
Experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
Continuous investment in technical growth to improve system availability and performance.
Pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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AWS Terraform Python Kubernetes Docker Postgres Prometheus Grafana CI/CD gRPC Ansible ELK Stack Datadog GraphQL

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