Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

We are looking for an experienced information systems and technology (IS&T) professional to join a growing IS&T team embedded within Microsoft’s SCHIE engineering team. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be part of a dynamic engineering infrastructure team enabling our technical creativity. This SRE will have primary responsibilities overseeing the server support infrastructure enabling and managing our hardware validation labs with cloud services and related engineering systems and the operational teams delivering these services. Come and be part of a team which deeply collaborates with silicon engineers to fulfill a unified vision.

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.
• 6+ Years’ Windows Systems Administration Experience
• 2+ Years’ UNIX/Linux Systems Administration Experience
• 4+ Years’ system automation experience using some scripting language such as Shell, PowerShell, Perl, or Python

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:

• 2+ Years’ Azure cloud administrative experience delivering IaaS services
• Experience providing technical and operational leadership
• Experience providing IS&T infrastructure to hardware or silicon engineering teams
• Experience supporting silicon emulation infrastructure
• Solid understanding of systems administration, automation, and monitoring
• Experience with Industry Compliance, Security, and Regulatory Standards such as ISO 27001, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171 Rev.2, NIST 800-53 Rev.4.
• Experience in Risk Management
• Understanding of fundamental statistics

Site Reliability Engineering IC4 - 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: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 23, 2024

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• Administrative server specification, deployment, maintenance, and support

• Top level support for Windows cluster and lab support infrastructure issues

• Craft operating system deployment, patching, and orchestration systems

• Oversee external server operations staff
• Review telemetry for server functions
• Define process and policy around server architecture concerns

• Interface and advise engineering teams on complex network connected hardware deployments

• Interface and advise other disciplines within IS&T on deployment, security, management concerns