Microsoft · 1 day ago
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
5+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for improving the reliability and security of critical infrastructure for Microsoft Teams, focusing on network security, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
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Responsibilities
You will drive strategic improvements in network security, monitoring and troubleshooting across the service and other stakeholders, while prioritizing development and implementation efforts
You will obsess on leveraging metrics and monitors to improve the reliability of mission critical dialtone services and scenarios
You will leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
You will hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
You will proactively seek new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers
Qualification
Required
Doctorate 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 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR equivalent experience
2+ years of experience on areas like TCP/IP concepts, load balancing, CDN, ACL, routing, TLS, Certificate Lifecycle management, IP network analysis and performance and application issues using standard tools
Preferred
Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 12+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
OR equivalent experience
7+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems
Experience with Network security, Network troubleshooting, Cloud Security, Security Policy management and Certificate lifecycle management
Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure services or 'Infrastructure as a Service [IaaS]' which delivers computer infrastructure, typically a platform virtualization environment as a service
Knowledge of automation technologies, leveraging AI for productivity improvements, methods, and processes used for quality and cost improvements
Experience managing horizontal initiatives/programs that span multiple teams/services
Company
Microsoft
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