As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Microsoft’s Azure Silver and Sovereign Team within the Azure Data Transfer division, you will apply SRE principles to ensure high availability and performance of mission-critical distributed systems. Your daily tasks include defining service health metrics through SLIs/SLOs, building automation to reduce operational overhead, and enhancing observability across logs, metrics, and traces. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to drive reliability improvements, participate in on-call rotations for incident response, and mentor engineers through design reviews and knowledge sharing. The role requires expertise in cloud reliability practices, Linux systems administration (Rocky 9, Redhat, Mariner), and automation tools like Ansible, as well as experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions. This position involves addressing complex challenges in highly regulated environments, ensuring strict compliance and security standards are met for both public and private sector customers.
Defines and improves service health via SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
Implements reliable changes using SRE practices like progressive delivery and safe rollouts.
Builds observability by expanding metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards to detect incidents.
Participates in on-call rotations for complex incidents, leading response and mitigation efforts.
Applies secure-by-design principles to operations, monitoring, and automation.
What we're looking for
Requires Master's degree in CS/IT or equivalent experience.
At least 2 years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
Expertise in large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
Experience with automation tools like Ansible and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong problem-solving skills for complex production environments.
Deep expertise in Linux system management and security hardening.
Market check
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$119,800–$234,700
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69%
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Peer median band
$119,800–$199,000
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$140,043–$185,937
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Based on 240 comparable postings.*
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About Microsoft
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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