SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER II

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Microsoft Security is responsible for company-wide information security and compliance, with a strategic focus on information protection, assessment, awareness, governance, and enterprise business continuity. As customer zero, we deploy and secure these services inside Microsoft and then share best practices with enterprise customers on a scale across the globe. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more! 

With your expertise in Azure Active Directory, Identity & Access Management, engineering functions, Azure Management, Windows Server OS, enterprise infrastructure, and overall service health, you will lead our identity-centric digital transformation and support hundreds of thousands of employees in empowering every person on the planet to accomplish more. As virtualization needs in the new hybrid workplace increases exponentially, our team strives to balance productivity and security in our internal services. Microsoft seeks a dedicated Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, ensuring that virtualization services are released with the right security mindset, providing access to the right resources at the right time, protected at every step.

• 4+ years of experience( 4-6 Years) in Azure cloud engineering, Azure network, Azure compute, Azure Storage services and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Advanced skills in PowerShell scripting, Azure PowerShell and YAML. Expertise in Log analytics and data analysis with Kusto.
• Proficiency in AVD infrastructure, virtual desktop, and virtual app management
• Strong knowledge of identity and security, particularly with Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, Federation Services, and Replication.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
• Experience with automated deployments and building pipelines.
• Ability to develop tools, automation scripts, and enhancements for services/products to manage software in production.
• Solid understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability philosophies and best practices. Troubleshooting with sys-internal tools like Windbg and ProcMon etc.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence cross team cooperation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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• Provide technical engineering for a cross-functional, high-visibility operations team supporting the Virtualization platform for Microsoft’s corporate/partner’s network.
• Identify and drive the implementation of automation opportunities to improve service health, manageability, reliability, and telemetry.
• Own, triage, investigate, and resolve service issues, emphasizing broad communication, learning, and teaching throughout the process.
• Read, write, configure, design, and script end-to-end service telemetry, alerting, and self-healing capabilities for platforms.
• Author functional and technical documentation, communicating at a deep technical level with product engineering, project management, and operations teams to optimize products, improve infrastructure, and evolve services.
• Stay current on new technologies, methods, and procedures, including Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment practices.
• Participates in on-call rotations to resolve live site incidents, minimize customer impact, and document solutions and insights that inform ongoing improvements to infrastructure, code, tools, and/or processes that prevent the recurrence of similar issues.