Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Do you have a passion for security and Identity and Access Management? Do you have what it takes to build long lasting resilient systems? Are you eager to drive secure digital transformation in Microsoft's hybrid identity journey? If you thrive in a high-performing team and love helping others succeed, the Enterprise Identity and Access Management (EIAM) team is looking for you. Our team delivers customer solutions across multiple areas, including user authentication, resource access, user experience protection and simplification, and enabling applications, devices, systems, and users to connect to resources at the right time for the right reasons. We are everywhere! We are looking for someone who as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer can support and nurture the team responsible for maintaining and syncing directory data throughout Microsoft's ecosystem. This role involves working with hybrid environments and partnering closely with product development teams to channel feedback from our enterprise experiences. We pride ourselves on our strong team culture, where collaboration, innovation, and mutual support are at the forefront. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will have the opportunity to create high-impact solutions that drive significant improvements and advancements in our identity and access management systems. Join us in making a difference and contributing to our mission of empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Security and compliance are at the core of everything we do. You will play a crucial role in ensuring our systems are secure, reliable, and compliant with industry standards. Your expertise will help us maintain the highest levels of security and integrity, protecting our users and their data. Additionally, you will contribute to our Secure Future Initiative (SFI), ensuring that all new features are designed and implemented with a security mindset.

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. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required/Minimum 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 of demonstrated experience in implementing highly reliable and secure systems.  
• 6+ years of experience monitoring performance and availability, improving efficiency, automating and reducing toil of large-scale hybrid, legacy and modern identity and access management systems.  
• 6+ years of experience handling security and compliance requirements, implementing leading practices to harden and secure systems and their dependencies  

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. 

Additional or 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, or systems administration  
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.  
• Experience with developing IAM workflows and scripts on cloud infrastructure and cloud based IAM solutions such as Azure and Entra ID 
• Experience maintaining large scale Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) and Active Directory (AD) implementations 
• Experience with C#, ASP.NET forms 
• Experience handling directory object lifecycle and management of GPOs with advanced PowerShell scripting 
• Experience performing data analytics on large data sets using tools such as Kusto Query Language (KQL), Splunk, or equivalent largescale service data management reporting and automation tool 
• Outstanding communication skills 
• Can translate complex technical detail into clear and concise business outcomes. 

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 February 3, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Implement automation to enhance IAM services and develop new capabilities.
• Create and maintain extensible and reusable code for IAM services.
• Lead solution architecture discussions to improve system performance.
• Operationalize and scale IAM services and security controls with an action-oriented mindset, performing careful analysis while quickly driving results
• Drive innovative solutions from proposal to maintenance.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in an on-call rotation.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and detection capabilities.
• Recommend mitigation strategies based on trends identified in the analysis of key IAM metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and other data sources (e.g., bugs, unhealthy data pipeline).
• Define and implement metrics to address gaps in measurement and reporting.
• Influence team members to act in response to findings, prioritized by severity.
• Recognize patterns and trends to recommend security policy improvements.
• Ability to ingest new work while balancing existing priorities and prioritize work based on risk reduction
• Embody our Culture and Values