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The Site Reliability Engineer II joins the Enterprise IAM Active Directory team to engineer, operate, and automate secure identity infrastructure supporting critical authentication services. In this role, you will improve service reliability and operational excellence by managing Active Directory services, monitoring incident response, and strengthening disaster recovery and failover capabilities. You will build intelligent automation and AI-assisted solutions to accelerate troubleshooting and reduce operational toil. The position requires proficiency in coding with C#, Python, and PowerShell to develop production-quality automation, APIs, and validation frameworks. You will utilize observability, telemetry, and SRE principles to manage Windows Server and Active Directory Domain Services. Key technical focus areas include DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, and Group Policy, while leveraging AI technologies like LLMs and Copilot for intelligent identity operations.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $187850 from 122 postings across 30 companies.
Engineer and operate highly available, secure, and resilient Active Directory services for critical authentication.
Improve service reliability through automation, observability, telemetry, and proactive engineering to reduce operational toil.
Build intelligent automation and AI-assisted solutions to accelerate troubleshooting and correlate operational signals.
Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across Active Directory, Windows Server, and supporting infrastructure.
Engineer and validate backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and regional failover capabilities to strengthen business continuity.
Implement modern Site Reliability Engineering practices to build scalable, automated approaches for identity infrastructure.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C#, Python, or PowerShell.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
2+ years of software development experience using C#, Python, PowerShell, or another programming language to build automation, tools, or engineering solutions (preferred).
2+ years of experience engineering, operating, or troubleshooting Windows Server and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) (preferred).
Experience debugging complex production systems using logs, metrics, monitoring, and telemetry to identify root causes (preferred).
Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering principles, including observability, incident response, automation, and reliability (preferred).
Experience applying AI technologies, including LLMs, AI agents, or Copilot, to software engineering or infrastructure (preferred).
Experience with Active Directory technologies such as DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, Group Policy, and replication (preferred).
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