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Microsoft · 10 hours ago

Site Reliability Engineer

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$98K/yr - $193K/yr

4+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Participate in on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles. On-call will require responding to support requests after normal business hours to include the weekends and/or holidays in a designated Microsoft office.

Monitor system performance and proactively identify and resolve issues to ensure high availability and performance.

Develop and maintain automation tools and processes for deployment, monitoring, and configuration management.

Apply troubleshooting skills, debugging tools, and examine logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions and customer impact. Proactively and reactively address findings with customer and/or service engineering efficiently via written and verbal communications.

Lead blameless postmortems for root cause and production resiliency.

Consult with developers to design services that scale in Azure.

Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in site reliability engineering and cloud computing.

Qualification

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Software EngineeringNetwork EngineeringSystems AdministrationSRE PrinciplesCloud ComputingAWSAzureGCPAutomation ToolsTerraformAnsibleChefPuppetScripting LanguagesPythonBashContainerizationOrchestration TechnologiesDockerKubernetesMonitoring ToolsLogging ToolsIncident Response ProcessesProblem-SolvingEffective CommunicationCollaboration

Required

4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Preferred

5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

OR Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

OR Master's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field AND 1+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

Experience applying SRE principles in a large production environment

Demonstrated proficiency in cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and related services (e.g., EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda)

Expertise in automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash)

Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) and incident response processes

Demonstrated problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems

Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment