About the job
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and more sky-is-the-limit-thinking in a cloud-enabled world.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.
Data Privacy has never been more top of mind than it is today. Governments around the world are passing new privacy legislation at a fast pace, and companies are investing in many aspects of data compliance to meet these new regulations. There is a significant opportunity here to empower every company to deliver data privacy solutions that meet these regulations and that build customer trust.
If you are looking for an opportunity to move the needle on data privacy, then the Microsoft Security Platform, Data Governance and Privacy (SPDGP) team is the right place for you. Within SPDGP, the Data Privacy Platform (DPP) team has been providing internal data privacy products for all Microsoft since 2018, operating these products at high scale and availability. We build reliable, highly scalable, highly performing, and distributed systems for scanning, cataloging, classification, and DSR processing. Our job is to provide privacy infrastructure, to produce meaningful insights about compliance, and to create understandable actions that can be taken to improve. We are leveraging this experience to create new data privacy products to benefit Microsoft and later all our customers. There is a steady stream of new requirements for both our internal and external partners that is creating exciting opportunities to work at high scale, impact, and visibility.
We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to help us build and enhance these data privacy products. These products will leverage Microsoft Purview and provide customers with much needed assistance as they work to ensure their privacy compliance.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
As we embark on the journey of developing these new data privacy products, we're seeking an experienced site reliability to manage several components of large-scale privacy projects. You'll work on cutting-edge server technologies, highly distributed systems, and focus on reliability, scalability, and performance. If you're ready to solve impactful problems and deliver high-quality solutions, this role is for you.
Responsibilities Include
- Ensure the reliability and availability of cloud services by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving incidents promptly. Implement and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to measure and meet service reliability goals while optimizing costs.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation scripts and tools to manage and scale cloud resources efficiently. Implement practices like Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate provisioning, configuration management, and optimize resource usage for cost-effectiveness in DevOps context.
- Continuously analyze cloud resource usage and costs. Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary spending through right-sizing, reserved instances, and cost-effective resource utilization, while maintaining performance and reliability.
- Collaborate with software engineers to identify and address performance bottlenecks in the system. Optimize system performance not only for reliability but also for cost efficiency by ensuring efficient resource utilization.
- Work closely with the security compliance team to implement and maintain security best practices, access control, vulnerability management, and compliance with security standards. Ensure that measures are cost-effective and aligned with the organization's budget constraints.
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relate field or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of experience with full stack troubleshooting across networks, applications, hardware, management fabric or distributed services layers.
- Experience working with physical IT infrastructure (Servers or Networking) with a focus on gathering, analyzing, or acting on telemetry from related systems.
- Experience working on high availability distributed systems (Cloud, AWS or Azure).
- Experience with automating software builds or tests or support processes.
- Experience with releasing and supporting distributed systems.
- Experience in site reliability engineering
- Experience building systems in the cloud.
- Experience in Production Support.
- Experience with big data systems.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Automation of testing configuration and performance.
- Experience in code or script development.
- Experience managing end-to-end services.
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.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Posted on Oct 10, 2023.
