Site Reliability Engineer II

Are you looking to make a real difference in Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Are you passionate about driving reliability of the services to make customers’ mission critical workloads run peacefully? Do you want to be part of a team that has a start-up mindset and work together to delight our customers and have lots of fun and learning along the way?

If this excites you, then come join the Azure Specialized team in India. We are responsible for building and offering specialized hardware and bare-metal solutions in Azure. This involves large scale specialized solutions like Azure Large Instances, Azure VMWare Services, super computers like Cray and more.

We are looking for a Service Reliability Engineer who is ready to be a part of a team that moves fast, leverages continuous delivery practices, and is customer focused. This position requires strong collaboration and teamwork across team and organizational boundaries, playing a vital role in reliability of engineering services that delight the customer. Your ability to be the customer advocate, focus on service first, and part of a team that tears down silos to deliver the best customer experience will be critical to your success, along with the teams.

• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• 5+ years of professional experience with 3+ years of experience involving service operations, Data centre operations, monitoring, and reliability improvement.
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams & organizations.
• Experience in managing distributed systems and/or cloud platforms a plus.
• Publications and/or certifications related to cloud technologies a plus.

Technical Skills

• Sound understanding of software service monitoring & reliability.
• Sound understanding of Data centre setup, monitoring & reliability.
• Strong inclination for quality of services aiming towards zero unplanned downtime.
• Experience in implementing systems to detect early symptoms towards failure is preferred.

Languages/Tools Experience

• Proficient in scripting with PowerShell, Shell script, etc.
• Deep expertise and experience working on VMware and its ecosystem a plus.
• Experience working on Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and the containers ecosystem a plus.
• Operational knowledge and experience in EPIC and/or NetApp is a plus.

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.

· Make software services reliable, secure, monitor and auto-manage infrastructure for specialized workloads on Azure.

· You will be involved in defining reliability of infrastructure & platform services used by mission critical workloads and implementing this cutting across Azure control and data plane components, networking, and operating systems.

· You will be responsible for a scenario that would require you to collaborate closely across organizations and teams, to collaborate across geographies, and to mentor and guide junior engineers in the team.

· You will get to enable mission critical workloads on Azure. It is a fast-paced environment. Our emphasis is on value to customers and live site excellence.