Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer 2- WEST

Job Summary

Do you want to work on a product that is used by millions of people around the world daily, and growing rapidly? Do you care deeply about how software is designed with a focus on supporting global scale? Do you want to be part of a world-class team that continuously pushes the boundary of service and engineering excellence?

The Web Experience and Services Team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who is passionate about working on high-scale geo-distributed services. These services power the infrastructure behind the Office web applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, which are part of the Office 365 suite. We are gearing up to modernize our infrastructure and services to further push the limits of scalability and reliability. If you want hands-on experience in designing, building, and running infrastructure for global services in the M365 and Azure ecosystem – at a scale not often found in the industry - this is the role for you.

Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

· 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in cloud infrastructure management and DevOps.

· Expertise in one and/or familiarity with multiple programming / scripting languages, such as Python, Batch, PowerShell.

· Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, patterns, and practices, and agile methodologies.

· Experience with managing infrastructure and troubleshooting with cloud platforms and services, such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. Comfortable in operations with Virtual machines and containers.

· Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

· Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

· Passion for learning new skills and technologies and sharing them with others.

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. 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.

Responsibilities

· Own Ship-driving for deploying online builds.

· Troubleshooting software and hardware issues.

· Develop mechanisms / scripts to make site reliability tasks more efficient.

· Defining new components with understanding of service interdependencies and limitations.

· Possess knowledge and is curious to learn more about performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.

· Work effectively with product development and engineering teams.

· You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result oriented.