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Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager

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Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager

1 Day ago • 6-7 Years • Network Engineering • $117,200 PA - $250,200 PA

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Job Description

This Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager role at Azure Storage focuses on managing a large-scale, ever-changing fleet to maximize efficiency and stability for customers. Responsibilities include leading a team in optimizing fleet availability and health, designing and improving automation and uptime, investigating complex issues, and developing solutions at scale. The role requires strong leadership, technical expertise in distributed systems, and experience in Agile/SCRUM. You will also be involved in incident response, post-mortem analysis, and collaborating across teams to achieve organizational goals. Significant impact on cost reduction and exposure to VP and CVP levels are offered.

Must have:

6+ years experience in software/network engineering or systems administration
4+ years Agile/SCRUM experience leading large cross-team efforts
Develop, test, and implement changes to optimize code scalability
Investigate and resolve hardware/system issues impacting capacity and customers
Respond to incidents during on-call rotations; provide post-mortem reports

Good to have:

Understanding of server architecture, troubleshooting, components, firmware, BIOS
Understanding of management techniques and methods for ensuring scope control
Familiarity with distributed systems

Perks:

Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Overview

Are you passionate about hardware and enabling new technology? Do you enjoy complex problem solving and investigation? Azure has one of the largest storage services on the planet, holding Exabytes of data and files not just for our 3rd party customers, but also many of Microsoft’s own services. This role will focus on managing an ever growing and changing fleet at scale to maximize efficiency while providing a stable environment for our customers.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager in Azure Storage team you will be working with a team of engineers focused on optimizing fleet availability and health. Leading a team of engineers to design, develop and improve automation and uptime. You will take lead of planning, investigating complex issues and designing solutions to solve problems at scale.

This opportunity will allow you to deepen your knowledge and experience with massive distributed systems. Opportunities to have significant impact on reducing cost to the business. Exposure and visibility at VP and CVP levels. This position is located in Redmond and has a flexible work environment that supports working from home.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

6+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
4+ years of Agile / SCRUM planning, and leading large cross team efforts.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

7+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering,
Understanding of server architecture and the ability to debug and trouble shoot isues impacting the fleet.
Understadning of server componants, Firmware, BIOS and how they interact.
Understanding management techinques, and methods for ensuring scope control.
Familiarity with distributed systems.

Site Reliability Engineering M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 9, 2024.

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Responsibilities

Develop, test, and implement changes to optimize code and improve scalability. You leverage end-to-end technical expertise and telemetry analysis to identify patterns and opportunities to implement configuration and automation improvments. You review the effect of changes to documents and share development insights within your team.
You drive Sprint planning, SCRUM stand ups, code/design reviews, and host regular cross team / org meetings.
Investigate hardware and system issues that are impacting available capacity and impacting customers.
Understand the long term goals of the organization and understand the steps your team will have to take to achieve those.
You respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations and share details related to incidents and their resolution through post-mortem reports and regular review meetings. As a member of the team you willl be expected to help drive bridges for recovery durring major outages.
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