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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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The Site Reliability Engineer II joins the Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team to support critical government cloud service offerings. This role focuses on independent execution and service ownership, where you will envision, design, and deliver high-scale software improvements to ensure service stability. Day-to-day responsibilities include developing code and scripts to automate repetitive operations like monitoring, alerting, and deployment. You will analyze production telemetry data to optimize performance, reliability, and observability while participating in code reviews and on-call incident responses. Key technical requirements include expertise in distributed systems design, cloud technology layers, and infrastructure code. You will solve complex problems regarding availability and efficiency for sovereign environments, utilizing automation and telemetry pipelines to maintain high-performance standards for government customers within a large-scale cloud infrastructure.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.
Develop and test software improvements to enhance the availability, reliability, and performance of Office 365 cloud services.
Design and maintain telemetry pipelines and monitoring tools to track operational metrics at scale.
Write scripts and code to automate repetitive operational processes like monitoring, alerting, and product deployments.
Troubleshoot production flaws and incidents during on-call rotations to identify and resolve root causes.
Analyze production telemetry data to identify patterns and implement configuration changes for platform stability.
Participate in code and design reviews to ensure system architecture meets government security and reliability standards.
Develop alerts and instrumentation to monitor product capacity and optimize resource management.
Create post-mortem reports to document incident resolutions and share best practices with engineering teams.
What we're looking for
Must have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field with 2+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
Must have a Master's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field with 1+ year(s) of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
Equivalent experience to the degree and years of experience requirements is accepted.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must possess an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.
Must be able to pass a Microsoft Cloud background check.
Must have a Master's Degree and 3+ years of technical experience OR a Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of technical experience (preferred).
Must have 2+ years of technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems (preferred).
Site Reliability Engineering
Distributed Systems
Observability
Automation
Software Development
System Design
Incident Response
Network Engineering
Systems Administration
Site Reliability Engineering
Distributed Systems
Observability
Automation
SLO
Incident Response
Network Engineering
Systems Administration
Security
Compliance
High Availability
Site Reliability Engineering
Distributed Systems
Network Engineering
Systems Administration
Monitoring
Observability
Incident Response
Service Architecture
GCC High
GCC Moderate
DoD
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